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


Earthquake location 9.8552S, 126.6345WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. Unique identifier: us70003emd. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003emd. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/04/19 / 2019-04-30 15:40:37 / April 30, 2019 @ 3:40 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:40:37 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 126.6345° East, 9.8552° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cantilan, Socorro, Dapa. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 52 km E of General Luna, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6345° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.8552° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km E 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 2019-04-30 15:40:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-30 16:23:11 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 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 9.308 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us70003emd Id of event.
Event Code 70003emd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003emd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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