Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Dinagat in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 1, 2016 0 Comments

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Dinagat in Philippines on Saturday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:53:42 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.5887 East, latitude 9.9138 North, depth = 34.96 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000634p. Id of event: us2000634p. Global time and date of event 04/06/16 / 2016-06-04 08:53:42 / June 4, 2016 @ 8:53 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 34.96 km (22 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabadbaran, Maasin, Sogod (min 5000 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

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 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: 4 km S of Dinagat, Philippines.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.5887° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.9138° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km S of Dinagat, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-04 08:53:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-01 12:21:48	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	284	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	2.825	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	109	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	us2000634p	Id of event.
Event Code	2000634p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000634p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Dinagat in Philippines

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information