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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near San Isidro in Philippines


Earthquake location 10.464S, 126.8125WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 94 km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines (58 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 30.14 km (19 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10008891. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008891. Exact location of earthquake, 126.8125° East, 10.464° North, depth 30.14 km. The temblor was reported at 11:36:34 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/17 / 2017-03-04 03:36:34 / March 4, 2017 @ 3:36 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 94 km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8125° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.464° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-04 03:36:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-28 23:47:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 355 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 3.586 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 132 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 us10008891 Id of event.
Event Code 10008891 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008891, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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