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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near General Luna in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.8315S, 126.3142WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/02/19 / 2019-02-08 20:37:50 / February 8, 2019 @ 8:37 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:37:50 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.3142° East, 9.8315° North, depth 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jfgl. Unique identifier: us2000jfgl.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loreto, Mainit, Kitcharao. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km ENE of General Luna, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3142° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.8315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ENE of General Luna, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-08 20:37:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-08 23:16:04 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 2.838 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 90 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 us2000jfgl Id of event.
Event Code 2000jfgl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jfgl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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