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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Kapaya in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.52S, 124.4853WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kapaya in Philippines. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:15:44 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bqfh. Id of event: us2000bqfh. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/17 / 2017-11-09 05:15:44 / November 9, 2017 @ 5:15 am. Exact location, longitude 124.4853° East, latitude 6.52° North, depth = 424.15 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 424.15 km (264 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maluñgun, Katangawan, General Santos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km WSW of Kapaya, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.4853° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.52° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 424.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km WSW of Kapaya, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-09 05:15:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-08 09:15:20 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 271 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 6.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us2000bqfh Id of event.
Event Code 2000bqfh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bqfh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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