Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 69 km E of Kinablangan, Philippines


Earthquake location 7.7841S, 127.1702WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Kinablangan in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 02:04:19 / April 24, 2024 @ 2:04 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 127.1702° East, 7.7841° North. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:04:19 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mtcx. Unique identifier: us6000mtcx. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manay, Lingig, Cateel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

Did you feel anything?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km E of Kinablangan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1702° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.7841° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km E of Kinablangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-24 02:04:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-02 23:51:57 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.73 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us6000mtcx Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtcx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtcx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply