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


Earthquake location 9.7662S, 125.3667WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Francisco in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 58.52 km (36 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100088vj. Id of event: us100088vj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.3667 East, latitude 9.7662 North, depth = 58.52 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/03/17 / 2017-03-14 11:47:58 / March 14, 2017 @ 11:47 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:47:58 / 7:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Buenavista (c. 18 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilongos, Mabini, Butuan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km W of San Francisco, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3667° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km W of San Francisco, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-14 11:47:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-14 13:23:11 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 2.687 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us100088vj Id of event.
Event Code 100088vj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100088vj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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