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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Matanao in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.6695S, 125.1692WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Matanao in Philippines on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 19:50:35 / 7:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.1692 East, latitude 6.6695 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/19 / 2019-10-20 11:50:35 / October 20, 2019 @ 11:50 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70005wb8. Event ids that are associated: us70005wb8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 100 km (62 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabayangan, Batobato, Maitum.

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

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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. 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: 9 km W of Matanao, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1692° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.6695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W of Matanao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-20 11:50:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-20 12:06:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 370 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 0.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005wb8 Id of event.
Event Code 70005wb8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005wb8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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