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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Talisay in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.7586S, 125.6556WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Talisay in Philippines. Exact location of event, depth 154.13 km, 125.6556° East, 9.7586° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 15:58:32 / May 12, 2020 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 154.13 km (96 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70009kv6. Event ids that are associated: us70009kv6. The temblor was reported at 23:58:32 / 11:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Buenavista (c. 18 700 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Libertad, Buenavista, Butuan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSE of Talisay, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6556° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 154.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSE of Talisay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-12 15:58:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-19 19:45:41 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 298 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 6.32 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us70009kv6 Id of event.
Event Code 70009kv6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009kv6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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