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

Posted by admin on May 13, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.3392S, 125.6783WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Unique identifier: us70003kbs. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003kbs. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:53:19 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/05/19 / 2019-05-13 10:53:19 / May 13, 2019 @ 10:53 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 168.27 km (105 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 125.6783 East, latitude 5.3392 North, depth = 168.27 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alabel, Maasin, Lun Pequeño (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-seven 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 24 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6783° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.3392° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 168.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-13 10:53:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-13 12:08:34 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 1.722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us70003kbs Id of event.
Event Code 70003kbs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003kbs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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