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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.1054S, 125.864WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108.28 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:26:41 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/19 / 2019-01-29 05:26:41 / January 29, 2019 @ 5:26 am. Exact location of event, longitude 125.864 East, latitude 5.1054 North, depth = 108.28 km. Event id: us2000j9yt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j9yt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caburan, Pangyan, Sarangani (min 5000 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 six and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 55 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.864° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.1054° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km SE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-29 05:26:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-29 05:46:05 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 1.971 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us2000j9yt Id of event.
Event Code 2000j9yt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j9yt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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