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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 10 km ENE of Nangan, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.4995S, 126.2191WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Nangan in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/06/18 / 2018-06-13 14:59:09 / June 13, 2018 @ 2:59 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000epz2. Event ids that are associated: us1000epz2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 143.42 km (89 miles). Exact location, longitude 126.2191° East, latitude 6.4995° North, depth = 143.42 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 22:59:09 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baracatan, Bato, Hagonoy.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 10 km ENE of Nangan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2191° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.4995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 143.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km ENE of Nangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-13 14:59:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-13 15:17:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 371 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 0.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us1000epz2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000epz2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000epz2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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