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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Aras-asan in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.8423S, 126.9943WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:39:42 / 8:39 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003mir. Id of event: us70003mir. Exact location, longitude 126.9943° East, latitude 8.8423° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/19 / 2019-05-09 00:39:42 / May 9, 2019 @ 12:39 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tandag, Hinatuan, Tago (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 76 km E of Aras-asan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9943° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8423° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km 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 2019-05-09 00:39:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-23 23:01:16 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 312 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 2.25 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us70003mir Id of event.
Event Code 70003mir An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003mir, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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