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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Balangbalang in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 20, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.0766S, 125.6367WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Balangbalang in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d1im. Unique identifier: us7000d1im. Exact location, longitude 125.6367° East, latitude 9.0766° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:27:58 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: 20/01/21 / 2021-01-20 01:27:58 / January 20, 2021 @ 1:27 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lagonglong, Claveria, Salay. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mariano (c. 70 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km NE of Balangbalang, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6367° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.0766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NE of Balangbalang, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-20 01:27:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-20 01:48:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 1.994 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us7000d1im Id of event.
Event Code 7000d1im An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d1im, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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