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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Barcelona in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ex2v. Id of event: us1000ex2v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 119.52 km (74 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 03:25:16 / June 21, 2018 @ 3:25 am. The temblor was detected at 11:25:16 / 11:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5258 East, latitude 8.2983 North, depth = 119.52 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nabunturan, Andop, Bayugan. Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (15 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 18 km NNE of Barcelona, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.5258° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.2983° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	119.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NNE of Barcelona, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-21 03:25:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-21 03:34:40	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	354	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	1.539	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us1000ex2v	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ex2v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ex2v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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