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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.2787S, 125.9074WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005l8i. Id of event: us60005l8i. Exact location, longitude 125.9074° East, latitude 5.2787° North, depth = 76.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76.37 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:24:26 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/19 / 2019-09-10 22:24:26 / September 10, 2019 @ 10:24 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangyan, Caburan, Sarangani. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 51 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9074° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.2787° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km ESE 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 2019-09-10 22:24:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-21 03:11:16 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 246 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 1.809 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us60005l8i Id of event.
Event Code 60005l8i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005l8i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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