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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Kiblawan in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.6529S, 125.1085WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kiblawan in Philippines. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 02:34:36 / December 16, 2019 @ 2:34 am. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:34:36 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.1085° East, latitude 6.6529° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us60006rzg. Event ids that are associated: us60006rzg.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tubod, Bau, Pagaluñgan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 14 km WNW of Kiblawan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1085° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.6529° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WNW of Kiblawan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-16 02:34:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-16 02:59:04 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 340 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 0.624 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us60006rzg Id of event.
Event Code 60006rzg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006rzg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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