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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Mabay in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.4994S, 124.09WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Mabay in Philippines. Exact location of event, depth 526.87 km, 124.09° East, 5.4994° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 526.87 km (327 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/03/16 / 2016-03-29 08:18:34 / March 29, 2016 @ 8:18 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:18:34 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005d4d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005d4d. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kiamba, Maitum (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Kiamba (c. 11 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Maitum (c. 8 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 74 km SW of Mabay, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.09° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.4994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 526.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km SW of Mabay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-29 08:18:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-29 08:36:45 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 354 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 5.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us20005d4d Id of event.
Event Code 20005d4d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005d4d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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