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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 18 km SSE of Anahawan, Philippines


Earthquake location 10.1254S, 125.3405WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Anahawan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 65.09 km (40 miles). Global time and date of event 05/08/17 / 2017-08-05 11:12:54 / August 5, 2017 @ 11:12 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 125.3405 East, latitude 10.1254 North, depth = 65.09 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:12:54 / 7:12 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000a53s. Event ids that are associated: us2000a53s.

Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Bato (c. 10 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop). Close 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 Mabini, Socorro, Dapa.

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 thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 18 km SSE of Anahawan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3405° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.1254° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSE of Anahawan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-05 11:12:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-05 12:08:25 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 3.045 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us2000a53s Id of event.
Event Code 2000a53s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a53s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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