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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Sulangan in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.2531S, 126.0768WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Sulangan in Philippines on Sunday. Global time and date of event 21/02/16 / 2016-02-21 01:25:17 / February 21, 2016 @ 1:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 49.1 km, 126.0768° East, 11.2531° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 49.1 km (31 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:25:17 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004scw. Event ids that are associated: us10004scw.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Borongan, Balangiga, Giporlos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Llorente (c. 7 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Balangiga (c. 5 600 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Maydolong (c. 5 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Giporlos (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby 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 three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km NE of Sulangan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0768° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.2531° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km NE of Sulangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-21 01:25:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-29 23:26:25 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 4.185 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 107 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 us10004scw Id of event.
Event Code 10004scw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004scw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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