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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 45 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.9479S, 126.1821WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, 126.1821° East, 5.9479° North, depth 153.56 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 153.56 km (95 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:13:09 / 12:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70007pe0. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007pe0. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 04:13:09 / February 4, 2020 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sapu Padidu, Basiawan, Alabel (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 45 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1821° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.9479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 153.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-04 04:13:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-05 03:16:08 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 1.265 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us70007pe0 Id of event.
Event Code 70007pe0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007pe0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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