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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near San Jose de Buan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from San Jose de Buan in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 00:07:20 / May 13, 2016 @ 12:07 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 55.62 km (35 miles). Id of earthquake: us10005gyg. Event ids that are associated: us10005gyg. The temblor was detected at 08:07:20 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 55.62 km, 125.0688° East, 11.9958° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tanauan, Jaro, Leyte.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 7 km SE of San Jose de Buan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.0688° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.9958° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SE of San Jose de Buan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-13 00:07:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-13 00:25:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	355	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	4.92	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us10005gyg	Id of event.
Event Code	10005gyg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005gyg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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