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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 9, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.7706S, 127.1286WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 123 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (76 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:03:31 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.91 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 127.1286 East, latitude 5.7706 North, depth = 60.91 km. Global time and date of event 09/07/17 / 2017-07-09 02:03:31 / July 9, 2017 @ 2:03 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us100098a9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100098a9.

Every 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 123 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1286° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.7706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km ESE 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 2017-07-09 02:03:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-09 02:21:54 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 2.009 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us100098a9 Id of event.
Event Code 100098a9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100098a9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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