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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Caburan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.5166S, 126.0491WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Caburan in Philippines. 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 104.49 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 14:55:12 / June 13, 2016 @ 2:55 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20006434. Event ids that are associated: us20006434. Exact location of event, depth 104.49 km, 126.0491° East, 5.5166° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:55:12 / 10:55 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Suyan (c. 7 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suyan, Baliton, Talagutong (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 63 km SE of Caburan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0491° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.5166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km SE of Caburan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-13 14:55:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-13 16:42:37 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 1.612 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us20006434 Id of event.
Event Code 20006434 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006434, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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