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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, Babuyan Islands region, Philippines


Earthquake location 19.8832S, 122.6315WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Babuyan Islands region, Philippines kilometers (0 miles) from Babuyan Islands region, Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 00:49:39 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.6315 East, latitude 19.8832 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/09/20 / 2020-09-30 00:49:39 / September 30, 2020 @ 12:49 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000c2z2. Event ids that are associated: us6000c2z2.

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Babuyan Islands region, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.6315° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.8832° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Babuyan Islands region, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-30 00:49:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-30 01:06:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us6000c2z2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c2z2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c2z2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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