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

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Jabonga in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us200050jw. Unique identifier: us200050jw. Exact location of earthquake, 125.3644° East, 9.2848° North, depth 64.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/02/16 / 2016-02-11 15:15:28 / February 11, 2016 @ 3:15 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.55 km (40 miles). The temblor was detected at 23:15:28 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tago, San Luis, San Luis (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mariano (c. 70 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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: 17 km WSW of Jabonga, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.3644° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.2848° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km WSW of Jabonga, 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 15:15:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-11 16:40:28	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	2.211	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us200050jw	Id of event.
Event Code	200050jw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200050jw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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