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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near General Luna in Philippines

Posted by admin on April 26, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.9782S, 126.7101WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:11:28 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/04/19 / 2019-04-26 19:11:28 / April 26, 2019 @ 7:11 pm. Exact location, longitude 126.7101° East, latitude 9.9782° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70003cp8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003cp8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Socorro, Dapa. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km ENE of General Luna, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7101° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.9782° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2019-04-26 19:11:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-26 19:51:11 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 3.098 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us70003cp8 Id of event.
Event Code 70003cp8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003cp8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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