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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near General Luna in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 19, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.7355S, 126.4911WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/19 / 2019-04-26 06:29:13 / April 26, 2019 @ 6:29 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:29:13 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 126.4911° East, 9.7355° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003hix. Unique identifier: us70003hix. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Placer, Aras-asan, Bacuag. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km E of General Luna, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4911° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7355° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km 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 2019-04-26 06:29:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-19 06:13:47 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 2.798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us70003hix Id of event.
Event Code 70003hix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003hix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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