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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 25, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.9232S, 126.459WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10007mjh. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007mjh. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:26:05 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/16 / 2016-12-24 20:26:05 / December 24, 2016 @ 8:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 126.459° East, latitude 5.9232° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from La Union (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Union, Talagutong, Sigaboy.

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

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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: 57 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.459° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.9232° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-24 20:26:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-25 06:27:46 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 1.435 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10007mjh Id of event.
Event Code 10007mjh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007mjh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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