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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.1606S, 126.5905WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/01/19 / 2019-01-27 16:19:06 / January 27, 2019 @ 4:19 pm. The temblor was picked up at 00:19:06 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000jhap. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jhap. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5905 East, latitude 6.1606 North, depth = 88.91 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 88.91 km (55 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from La Union (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mati, Batobato, La Union.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data 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 126.5905° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.1606° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-27 16:19:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-13 21:31:13 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 1.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us2000jhap Id of event.
Event Code 2000jhap An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jhap, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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