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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kalbay in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.7051S, 125.4854WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Kalbay in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 125.4854° East, 5.7051° North, depth 76.39 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000f0c5. Unique identifier: us1000f0c5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/06/18 / 2018-06-24 15:30:32 / June 24, 2018 @ 3:30 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:30:32 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 76.39 km (47 miles).

Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cebuano, Santa Maria, Basiawan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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: 2 km SW of Kalbay, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.4854° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.7051° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SW of Kalbay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-24 15:30:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-24 15:55:39 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 312 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 1.358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us1000f0c5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000f0c5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000f0c5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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