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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Tiblawan in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.3745S, 125.9331WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Tiblawan in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/16 / 2016-12-21 10:48:23 / December 21, 2016 @ 10:48 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.41 km (69 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:48:23 / 6:48 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 125.9331 East, latitude 6.3745 North, depth = 110.41 km. Id of earthquake: us10007lp3. Event ids that are associated: us10007lp3.

Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lambayong, Biao, Polomolok (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km WSW of Tiblawan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9331° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.3745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km WSW of Tiblawan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-21 10:48:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-21 11:06:12 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 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 0.775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us10007lp3 Id of event.
Event Code 10007lp3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007lp3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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