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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Cortes in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.3015S, 126.1886WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cortes in Philippines on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007c9x. Id of event: us20007c9x. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 71.77 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:25:13 / 10:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.1886 East, latitude 9.3015 North, depth = 71.77 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/16 / 2016-10-06 02:25:13 / October 6, 2016 @ 2:25 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tagbina, Surigao, Buenavista (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 2 km N of Cortes, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1886° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.3015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km N of Cortes, 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 02:25:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-06 02:44:30 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 326 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 2.298 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us20007c9x Id of event.
Event Code 20007c9x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007c9x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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