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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Balangiga in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 31, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.7964S, 125.416WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Balangiga in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 87.93 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000efdp. Event ids that are associated: us1000efdp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/18 / 2018-05-27 14:40:27 / May 27, 2018 @ 2:40 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:40:27 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.416 East, latitude 10.7964 North, depth = 87.93 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maasin, Barugo, Babatngon. 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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 34 km S of Balangiga, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.416° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.7964° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km S of Balangiga, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-27 14:40:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-31 18:41:12 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 326 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 13.248 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us1000efdp Id of event.
Event Code 1000efdp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000efdp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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