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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Carasi in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1555S, 120.8237WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Carasi in Philippines on Tuesday. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:59:14 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000chbz. Id of event: us1000chbz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.55 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 04:59:14 / February 6, 2018 @ 4:59 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.8237 East, latitude 18.1555 North, depth = 43.55 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pasil, Magapit, Aguiguican, Magapit. Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 6 km SW of Carasi, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.8237° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SW of Carasi, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-06 04:59:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-06 05:12:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 4.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us1000chbz Id of event.
Event Code 1000chbz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000chbz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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