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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.3859S, 126.2811WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76.25 km (47 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:04:04 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.2811 East, latitude 5.3859 North, depth = 76.25 km. Id of earthquake: us70005huq. Event ids that are associated: us70005huq. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/19 / 2019-09-18 12:04:04 / September 18, 2019 @ 12:04 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan, Sarangani (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 90 km E of Sarangani, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2811° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.3859° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km E of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-18 12:04:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-18 12:28:13 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 340 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 1.812 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us70005huq Id of event.
Event Code 70005huq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005huq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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