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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Mangili in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.889S, 125.9013WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Mangili in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/03/18 / 2018-03-31 20:43:58 / March 31, 2018 @ 8:43 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:43:58 / 4:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.9013° East, latitude 5.889° North, depth = 161.55 km. Unique identifier: us1000dbyc. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dbyc. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 161.55 km (100 miles).

Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Polomolok, Maasin, Malalag. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 27 km ESE of Mangili, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9013° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 161.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 2018-03-31 20:43:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-31 21:09:57 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 1.215 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 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 us1000dbyc Id of event.
Event Code 1000dbyc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dbyc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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