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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 42 km ESE of Mangili, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.889S, 126.0501WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Mangili in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 20:16:50 / November 20, 2017 @ 8:16 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:16:50 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000bs05. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bs05. The epicenter was at a depth of 89.49 km (56 miles). Exact location of event, depth 89.49 km, 126.0501° East, 5.889° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 16 800 pop). Close 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 Conel, Malandag, General Santos.

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-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 42 km ESE of Mangili, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0501° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km ESE of Mangili, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-20 20:16:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-20 20:59:09 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 369 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 1.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us2000bs05 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bs05 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bs05, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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