Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Dolo in Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Dolo in Philippines on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 05:22:08 / 5:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us600064kh. Event ids that are associated: us600064kh. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.18 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/10/19 / 2019-10-29 21:22:08 / October 29, 2019 @ 9:22 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 125.1296 East, latitude 6.8232 North, depth = 15.18 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tagum, Sapu Padidu, San Jose. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.1296° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.8232° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km WNW of Dolo, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-29 21:22:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-29 21:37:21	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	369	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	0.509	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us600064kh	Id of event.
Event Code	600064kh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600064kh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

125.1296° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

6.8232° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

15.18 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

7km WNW of Dolo, Philippines

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-10-29 21:22:08

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-10-29 21:37:21

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

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

369

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.509

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.68 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us600064kh

Id of event.

Event Code

600064kh

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us600064kh,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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