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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Lalauigan in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 29, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.648S, 125.5911WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Lalauigan in Philippines on Friday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:20:48 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/03/18 / 2018-03-29 17:20:48 / March 29, 2018 @ 5:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000dawa. Event ids that are associated: us1000dawa. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.97 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 44.97 km, 125.5911° East, 11.648° North.

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Dolores (c. 9 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alangalang, Gamay, Tanauan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km ENE of Lalauigan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.5911° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE of Lalauigan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-29 17:20:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-29 21:06:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 327 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 4.549 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 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 us1000dawa Id of event.
Event Code 1000dawa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dawa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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