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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.4607S, 126.7597WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 177 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines (110 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.7597 East, latitude 4.4607 North, depth = 89.5 km. Id of earthquake: us20009yd0. Event ids that are associated: us20009yd0. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/07/17 / 2017-07-20 07:34:10 / July 20, 2017 @ 7:34 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:34:10 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89.5 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 three and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 177 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7597° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.4607° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 177km SE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-20 07:34:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-20 07:50:54 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 354 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 2.845 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 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 us20009yd0 Id of event.
Event Code 20009yd0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009yd0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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