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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Butulan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.5614S, 125.5451WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Butulan in Philippines on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 157.66 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/02/19 / 2019-02-25 01:53:04 / February 25, 2019 @ 1:53 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 09:53:04 / 9:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.5451 East, latitude 5.5614 North, depth = 157.66 km. Unique identifier: us1000jbv8. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jbv8.

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Polomolok, Malandag, Maluñgun (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 13 km ESE of Butulan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.5451° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.5614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 157.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ESE of Butulan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-25 01:53:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-11 01:52:22 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 259 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 6.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us1000jbv8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jbv8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jbv8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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