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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Marihatag in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.7833S, 126.495WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Marihatag in Philippines on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 19:10:19 / May 25, 2016 @ 7:10 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20005xwb. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005xwb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.75 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 126.495 East, latitude 8.7833 North, depth = 50.75 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:10:19 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tungao, Veruela, Loreto.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km E of Marihatag, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.495° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.7833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km E of Marihatag, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-25 19:10:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-25 19:26:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 370 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 1.929 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us20005xwb Id of event.
Event Code 20005xwb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005xwb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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