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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.4026S, 125.9779WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 124 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines (77 miles). Unique identifier: us10004827. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004827. The temblor was picked up at 11:39:11 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 150.82 km (94 miles). Global time and date of event 18/12/15 / 2015-12-18 03:39:11 / December 18, 2015 @ 3:39 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.9779 East, latitude 4.4026 North, depth = 150.82 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 124 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9779° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.4026° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 150.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-18 03:39:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-18 03:57:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.679 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004827 Id of event.
Event Code 10004827 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004827, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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