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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Siraway in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.5299S, 121.8699WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Siraway in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.28 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20006hft. Unique identifier: us20006hft. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 15:05:39 / July 25, 2016 @ 3:05 pm. Exact location of event, depth 37.28 km, 121.8699° East, 7.5299° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:05:39 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Zamboanga (c. 457 600 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from City of Isabela (c. 67 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Recodo (c. 42 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ipil (c. 19 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sangali (c. 14 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Labuan (c. 12 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Titay (c. 11 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalawit, City of Isabela, Ipil.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 30 km WSW of Siraway, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8699° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.5299° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km WSW of Siraway, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-25 15:05:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-25 16:44:15 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 340 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 3.707 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us20006hft Id of event.
Event Code 20006hft An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hft, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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