Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Magsaysay in Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Magsaysay in Philippines on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:31:45 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70004fxg. Unique identifier: us70004fxg. Exact location, longitude 125.0687° East, latitude 6.72° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 15:31:45 / July 9, 2019 @ 3:31 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was South Upi, Dalumangcob, Glan (min 5000 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen 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: 13 km WSW of Magsaysay, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.0687° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.72° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km WSW of Magsaysay, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-09 15:31:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-09 15:53:08	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	369	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	0.614	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us70004fxg	Id of event.
Event Code	70004fxg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70004fxg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

125.0687° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

6.72° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

13km WSW of Magsaysay, Philippines

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-07-09 15:31:45

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-07-09 15:53:08

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

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

369

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.614

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.7 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70004fxg

Id of event.

Event Code

70004fxg

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70004fxg,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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