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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Tamisan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.5121S, 126.5773WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Tamisan in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/09/16 / 2016-09-23 23:45:39 / September 23, 2016 @ 11:45 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006s6l. Id of event: us10006s6l. The temblor was reported at 07:45:39 / 7:45 am (local time epicenter). 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 88.26 km (55 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.5773 East, latitude 6.5121 North, depth = 88.26 km.

Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manay, Lupon, San Ignacio. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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. 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 fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 47 km SE of Tamisan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5773° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.5121° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km SE of Tamisan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-23 23:45:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-24 00:01:36 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 5.756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us10006s6l Id of event.
Event Code 10006s6l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006s6l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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