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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 45 km E of Aras-asan, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.8146S, 126.7072WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines. Global time and date of event 28/06/17 / 2017-06-28 23:45:06 / June 28, 2017 @ 11:45 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 126.7072° East, 8.8146° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:45:06 / 7:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100096wy. Id of event: us100096wy.

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 Lingig, Bah-Bah, Patin-ay. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km E of Aras-asan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7072° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8146° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km E of Aras-asan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-28 23:45:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-14 03:18:59 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 2.062 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us100096wy Id of event.
Event Code 100096wy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096wy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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