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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Maslog in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.2107S, 125.1172WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Maslog in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 78.41 km (49 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/16 / 2016-10-06 19:09:51 / October 6, 2016 @ 7:09 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.1172 East, latitude 12.2107 North, depth = 78.41 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007cds. Unique identifier: us20007cds. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:09:51 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Llorente, Allen, Babatngon. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Pambujan (c. 10 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Dolores (c. 9 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km NNW of Maslog, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1172° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNW of Maslog, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-06 19:09:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-06 19:40:59 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 5.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us20007cds Id of event.
Event Code 20007cds An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007cds, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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