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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Kalbay in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.6983S, 125.5017WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Kalbay in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 125.5017° East, 5.6983° North, depth 190.43 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 190.43 km (118 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004dyf. Unique identifier: us10004dyf. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:48:41 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/01/16 / 2016-01-13 07:48:41 / January 13, 2016 @ 7:48 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kiamba, Kipalbig, Sulop. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km S of Kalbay, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.5017° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6983° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 190.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km S of Kalbay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-13 07:48:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-13 08:04:59 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 369 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 1.364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us10004dyf Id of event.
Event Code 10004dyf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004dyf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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