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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 33 km SSW of Pondaguitan, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.1066S, 126.0113WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 128.33 km (80 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/03/17 / 2017-03-27 12:12:34 / March 27, 2017 @ 12:12 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:12:34 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20008v01. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008v01. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 128.33 km, 126.0113° East, 6.1066° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baliton, Glan, Padada.

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 two and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 33 km SSW of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0113° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.1066° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km SSW 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 2017-03-27 12:12:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-27 12:38:13 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 312 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 1.048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us20008v01 Id of event.
Event Code 20008v01 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008v01, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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