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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.7776S, 126.7963WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 94 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (58 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:18:46 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/16 / 2016-07-03 23:18:46 / July 3, 2016 @ 11:18 pm. Id of earthquake: us100061z8. Event ids that are associated: us100061z8. Exact location of event, longitude 126.7963 East, latitude 5.7776 North, depth = 200.91 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 200.91 km (125 miles).

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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7963° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.7776° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 200.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-03 23:18:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-22 22:37:28 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 259 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 1.763 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us100061z8 Id of event.
Event Code 100061z8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100061z8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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