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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Bulatukan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.8885S, 125.1572WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Bulatukan in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us6000646y. Event ids that are associated: us6000646y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:34:28 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 125.1572° East, 6.8885° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/10/19 / 2019-10-29 02:34:28 / October 29, 2019 @ 2:34 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dalumangcob, Maramag, Cambanugoy. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days eighty-two 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 quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km SSW of Bulatukan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1572° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSW of Bulatukan, 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 02:34:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-26 01:31:52 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 354 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 0.455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us6000646y Id of event.
Event Code 6000646y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000646y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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