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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.7994S, 126.9311WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 240 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines (149 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.9311 East, latitude 3.7994 North, depth = 45.22 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:23:34 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10004g6a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004g6a. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.22 km (28 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/01/16 / 2016-01-21 20:23:34 / January 21, 2016 @ 8:23 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days seventy 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 240 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9311° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.7994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 240km SE 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 2016-01-21 20:23:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-18 19:22:25 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 340 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 3.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us10004g6a Id of event.
Event Code 10004g6a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004g6a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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