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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 16 km SE of Tutubigan, Philippines


Earthquake location 11.7496S, 125.1778WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Tutubigan in Philippines on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 14:41:13 / 2:41 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/19 / 2019-04-23 06:41:13 / April 23, 2019 @ 6:41 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 56.3 km (35 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 125.1778° East, 11.7496° North, depth 56.3 km. Event id: us70003ak7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003ak7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tabango, Guiuan, Kampokpok.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km SE of Tutubigan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1778° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.7496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SE of Tutubigan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-23 06:41:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-23 07:32:04 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 9.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us70003ak7 Id of event.
Event Code 70003ak7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ak7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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