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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Sulat in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.7812S, 125.5639WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Sulat in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.01 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us60008c3i. Unique identifier: us60008c3i. Exact location, longitude 125.5639° East, latitude 11.7812° North, depth = 42.01 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:04:33 / 1:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/03/20 / 2020-03-08 17:04:33 / March 8, 2020 @ 5:04 pm.

The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Dolores (c. 9 300 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palapag, Tanauan, Pagsanghan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 12 km ESE of Sulat, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.5639° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.7812° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ESE of Sulat, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-08 17:04:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-08 17:57:19 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 4.681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us60008c3i Id of event.
Event Code 60008c3i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008c3i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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