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

Posted by admin on October 19, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.4761S, 120.2222WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Fuerte in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us1000atzv. Event ids that are associated: us1000atzv. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 07:06:28 / October 19, 2017 @ 7:06 am. The temblor was reported at 15:06:28 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 120.2222 East, latitude 17.4761 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tagudin (c. 35 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 28 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paringao, Baculongan, Kibungan.

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 nine 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 16 km WSW of Fuerte, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.2222° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4761° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WSW of Fuerte, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-19 07:06:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-19 07:24:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 355 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 5.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us1000atzv Id of event.
Event Code 1000atzv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000atzv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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