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

Posted by admin on November 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.8838S, 125.6613WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Cagdianao in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000hb3m. Event ids that are associated: us1000hb3m. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/10/18 / 2018-10-07 07:29:56 / October 7, 2018 @ 7:29 am. The temblor was detected at 15:29:56 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.6613 East, latitude 9.8838 North, depth = 48.43 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.43 km (30 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maasin, Sogod, Cabadbaran (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 4 km SSW of Cagdianao, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6613° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.8838° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW of Cagdianao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-07 07:29:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-02 05:57:59 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 2.797 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us1000hb3m Id of event.
Event Code 1000hb3m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hb3m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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