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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Basco in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.67S, 122.1377WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Basco in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 171.24 km (106 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:36:57 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.1377 East, latitude 20.67 North, depth = 171.24 km. Id of earthquake: us2000jjb5. Event ids that are associated: us2000jjb5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 20:36:57 / February 17, 2019 @ 8:36 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 30 km NE of Basco, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.1377° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.67° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NE of Basco, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-17 20:36:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-17 21:06:02 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 340 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 2.352 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jjb5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jjb5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jjb5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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