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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 67 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines

Posted by admin on January 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.6886S, 126.2047WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Caburan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700071lr. Id of event: us700071lr. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:03:22 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 11:03:22 / January 17, 2020 @ 11:03 am. Exact location of event, longitude 126.2047 East, latitude 5.6886 North, depth = 104.76 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 104.76 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suyan, Sarangani, Talagutong. Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Suyan (c. 7 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2047° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km ESE of Caburan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-17 11:03:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-17 11:26:01 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 1.506 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us700071lr Id of event.
Event Code 700071lr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700071lr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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