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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Taytayan in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.756S, 126.5493WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Taytayan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/12/17 / 2017-12-17 08:15:28 / December 17, 2017 @ 8:15 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 70.14 km (44 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:15:28 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c5dr. Unique identifier: us2000c5dr. Exact location of earthquake, 126.5493° East, 7.756° North, depth 70.14 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sampao, Barobo, Cabayangan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop).

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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 5 km ENE of Taytayan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5493° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.756° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ENE of Taytayan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-17 08:15:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-17 09:14:34 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 1.179 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000c5dr Id of event.
Event Code 2000c5dr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c5dr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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