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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.5953S, 127.3947WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 159 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (99 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:00:44 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/02/16 / 2016-02-19 23:00:44 / February 19, 2016 @ 11:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.16 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.3947 East, latitude 5.5953 North, depth = 42.16 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004r79. Id of event: us10004r79.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 159 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3947° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.5953° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 159km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-19 23:00:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-19 23:22:55 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 4.791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us10004r79 Id of event.
Event Code 10004r79 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004r79, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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