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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Cagdianao in Philippines


Earthquake location 10.0642S, 125.7101WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cagdianao in Philippines. Global time and date of event 14/07/19 / 2019-07-14 00:16:35 / July 14, 2019 @ 12:16 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70004ju6. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004ju6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 08:16:35 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.7101° East, latitude 10.0642° North, depth = 10 km. 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 Maasin, Sogod, Cantilan. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sogod (c. 8 300 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km NNE of Cagdianao, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.7101° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.0642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNE of Cagdianao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-14 00:16:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-14 00:41:57 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 2.978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us70004ju6 Id of event.
Event Code 70004ju6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004ju6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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