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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near San Pedro in Philippines

Posted by admin on April 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.3264S, 126.5159WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from San Pedro in Philippines on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 156.77 km (97 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 126.5159 East, latitude 7.3264 North, depth = 156.77 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:54:01 / 7:54 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000dyij. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dyij. Global time and date of event 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 23:54:01 / April 11, 2018 @ 11:54 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Andop, Libertad, Bislig (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km S of San Pedro, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5159° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.3264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 156.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km S of San Pedro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-11 23:54:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-12 00:10:54 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 369 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 0.963 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us2000dyij Id of event.
Event Code 2000dyij An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dyij, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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