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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Lumatil in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.6191S, 124.8638WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Lumatil in Philippines on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 124.8638 East, latitude 5.6191 North, depth = 61.04 km. Global time and date of event 16/12/20 / 2020-12-16 06:06:48 / December 16, 2020 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000crgl. Unique identifier: us7000crgl. The temblor was detected at 06:06:48 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.04 km (38 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Surallah (c. 31 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carpenter, Santo Niño, Caburan (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 thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km S of Lumatil, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.8638° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6191° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km S of Lumatil, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-16 06:06:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-16 07:25:15 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 312 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 1.607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us7000crgl Id of event.
Event Code 7000crgl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000crgl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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