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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 10 km W of Don Carlos, Philippines

Posted by admin on April 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.694S, 124.9072WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Don Carlos in Philippines on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/04/17 / 2017-04-12 05:01:57 / April 12, 2017 @ 5:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 124.9072° East, 7.694° North, depth 9.35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.35 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:01:57 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10008gv0. Event ids that are associated: us10008gv0.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dalipuga, Linamon, Baracatan. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cagayan de Oro (c. 445 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Iligan City (c. 312 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mantampay (c. 265 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Marawi City (c. 143 600 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 10 km W of Don Carlos, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.9072° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km W of Don Carlos, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-12 05:01:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-12 05:43:48 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 0.91 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us10008gv0 Id of event.
Event Code 10008gv0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008gv0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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