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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Aras-asan in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.8532S, 126.5438WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines. Event id: us70003i7p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003i7p. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.41 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/05/19 / 2019-05-08 05:34:34 / May 8, 2019 @ 5:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 13:34:34 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.5438 East, latitude 8.8532 North, depth = 49.41 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taligaman, Bunawan, San Luis (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Talacogon (c. 15 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Bunawan (c. 15 500 pop).

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

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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 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: 26 km E of Aras-asan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5438° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8532° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km E of Aras-asan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-08 05:34:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-08 05:55:50 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 2.013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us70003i7p Id of event.
Event Code 70003i7p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003i7p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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