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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Guirang in Philippines

Posted by admin on April 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.3517S, 125.122WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Guirang in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123.35 km (77 miles). Global time and date of event 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 01:07:56 / April 15, 2020 @ 1:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 125.122 East, latitude 11.3517 North, depth = 123.35 km. Unique identifier: us70008wff. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008wff. The temblor was reported at 09:07:56 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calbayog City, Oras, Matlang (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop).

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 0 km ENE of Guirang, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.122° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.3517° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km ENE of Guirang, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-15 01:07:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-15 01:24:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 341 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 4.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us70008wff Id of event.
Event Code 70008wff An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008wff, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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