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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 3 km S of Malinao, Philippines

Posted by admin on December 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.6317S, 125.2819WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Malinao in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us60006rux. Event ids that are associated: us60006rux. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.74 km (10 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:24:06 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.2819° East, 6.6317° North, depth 16.74 km. Global time and date of event 15/12/19 / 2019-12-15 18:24:06 / December 15, 2019 @ 6:24 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corocotan, Cabayangan, Baliton (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km S of Malinao, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.2819° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.6317° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km S of Malinao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-15 18:24:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-15 19:02:04 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 0.525 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us60006rux Id of event.
Event Code 60006rux An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006rux, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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