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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Kinablangan in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.9801S, 126.9215WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Kinablangan in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us20004zkt. Event ids that are associated: us20004zkt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.81 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.9215 East, latitude 7.9801 North, depth = 81.81 km. Global time and date of event 11/02/16 / 2016-02-11 21:20:27 / February 11, 2016 @ 9:20 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:20:27 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manay, Trento, Salvacion (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (44 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 51 km NE of Kinablangan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9215° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.9801° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NE of Kinablangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-11 21:20:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-11 22:01:11 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 312 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 1.609 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us20004zkt Id of event.
Event Code 20004zkt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004zkt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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