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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 3 km SSW of Basey, Philippines

Posted by admin on July 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.252S, 125.0527WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Basey in Philippines on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.0527 East, latitude 11.252 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 18:31:51 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10009779. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10009779. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/17 / 2017-07-06 10:31:51 / July 6, 2017 @ 10:31 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sogod, Can-Avid, Pagsanghan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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: 3 km SSW of Basey, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSW of Basey, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-06 10:31:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-06 11:06:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 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 4.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10009779 Id of event.
Event Code 10009779 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10009779, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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