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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 28 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines

Posted by admin on April 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.1185S, 126.2718WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. 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 128.02 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10008f8a. Event ids that are associated: us10008f8a. Exact location of event, depth 128.02 km, 126.2718° East, 6.1185° North. The temblor was reported at 02:13:11 / 2:13 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/03/17 / 2017-03-31 18:13:11 / March 31, 2017 @ 6:13 pm.

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 Mati, Lupon, Batobato. Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 28 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2718° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.1185° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SSE 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 2017-03-31 18:13:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-22 22:03:09 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 1.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10008f8a Id of event.
Event Code 10008f8a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008f8a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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