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


Earthquake location 6.5821S, 125.2755WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kiblawan in Philippines on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, 125.2755° East, 6.5821° North, depth 10.54 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.54 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 04:26:30 / July 15, 2019 @ 4:26 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:26:30 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60004uu6. Event ids that are associated: us60004uu6.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangyan, Kiamba, Maganoy. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SE of Kiblawan, Philippines. This data 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 125.2755° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.5821° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Kiblawan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-15 04:26:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-25 22:15:13 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 0.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us60004uu6 Id of event.
Event Code 60004uu6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004uu6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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