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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Mabahin in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.1864S, 126.323WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Mabahin in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 126.323° East, 9.1864° North, depth 75.79 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:12:38 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.79 km (47 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us600054sj. Unique identifier: us600054sj. Global time and date of event 13/08/19 / 2019-08-13 22:12:38 / August 13, 2019 @ 10:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mainit, Placer, Tungao (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km E of Mabahin, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.323° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E of Mabahin, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-13 22:12:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-13 23:17:08 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 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 2.228 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us600054sj Id of event.
Event Code 600054sj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600054sj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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