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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.2415S, 126.8652WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us10008ryf. Event ids that are associated: us10008ryf. The epicenter was at a depth of 118.77 km (74 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 18:16:49 / May 9, 2017 @ 6:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.8652 East, latitude 6.2415 North, depth = 118.77 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:16:49 / 2:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tibanbang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 77 km E of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8652° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.2415° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km E 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 2017-05-09 18:16:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-02 18:10:28 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 1.519 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us10008ryf Id of event.
Event Code 10008ryf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ryf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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