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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Boston in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.8847S, 126.3931WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Boston in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.3931 East, latitude 7.8847 North, depth = 142.4 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:34:16 / 4:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 142.4 km (88 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005arj. Id of event: us20005arj. Global time and date of event 15/03/16 / 2016-03-15 08:34:16 / March 15, 2016 @ 8:34 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bah-Bah, Carmen, New Visayas (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km ENE of Boston, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3931° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.8847° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ENE of Boston, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-15 08:34:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-27 10:46:08 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 1.143 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us20005arj Id of event.
Event Code 20005arj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005arj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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