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

Posted by admin on January 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.6529S, 122.6869WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 276 km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines (171 miles) on Thursday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:44:35 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 564.92 km (351 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 564.92 km, 122.6869° East, 3.6529° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007rad. Unique identifier: us10007rad. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/01/17 / 2017-01-05 06:44:35 / January 5, 2017 @ 6:44 am UTC/GMT.

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. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 276 km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.6869° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.6529° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 564.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 276km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-05 06:44:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-05 07:21:14 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 3.161 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us10007rad Id of event.
Event Code 10007rad An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rad, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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