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

Posted by admin on January 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9974S, 119.7291WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ilioilio in Philippines on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 19:43:34 / December 17, 2016 @ 7:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.7291 East, latitude 15.9974 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us10007psc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007psc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 03:43:34 / 3:43 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rosales, Carusucan, Burgos. Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Urdaneta (c. 101 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Manaoag (c. 59 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Lingayen (c. 56 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Binmaley (c. 44 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Camiling (c. 39 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 5 km NW of Ilioilio, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.7291° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9974° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NW of Ilioilio, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-17 19:43:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 04:48:56 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 6.903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us10007psc Id of event.
Event Code 10007psc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007psc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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