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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 3 km WNW of Alimodian, Philippines

Posted by admin on August 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.8381S, 122.4031WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Alimodian in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.55 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10006f2k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006f2k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 122.4031 East, latitude 10.8381 North, depth = 26.55 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:34:38 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/08/16 / 2016-08-15 11:34:38 / August 15, 2016 @ 11:34 am.

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 Canlaon, Biao, Dancalan. Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Bacolod City (c. 454 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Mansilingan (c. 454 200 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Iloilo (c. 387 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bago City (c. 150 300 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Cadiz (c. 129 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Roxas City (c. 102 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Victorias (c. 86 500 pop).

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

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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: 3 km WNW of Alimodian, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.4031° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.8381° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Alimodian, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-15 11:34:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 13:41:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 369 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 4.885 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 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 us10006f2k Id of event.
Event Code 10006f2k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006f2k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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