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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Sabang in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.72S, 120.149WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Sabang in Philippines. Unique identifier: us2000a931. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a931. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.149 East, latitude 14.72 North, depth = 51.33 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/08/17 / 2017-08-13 13:58:59 / August 13, 2017 @ 1:58 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:58:59 / 9:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.33 km (32 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alfonso, Papaya, Binubusan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Jose del Monte (c. 357 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 11 km WNW of Sabang, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.149° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.72° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WNW of Sabang, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-13 13:58:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-27 13:30:14 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 340 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 8.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us2000a931 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a931 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a931, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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