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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 58 km N of Claveria, Philippines


Earthquake location 19.1384S, 121.0736WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Claveria in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 121.0736 East, latitude 19.1384 North, depth = 8.093 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.093 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/24 / 2024-05-03 15:39:58 / May 3, 2024 @ 3:39 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:39:58 / 3:39 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000mw1d. Event ids that are associated: us6000mw1d. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Cabaritan East (c. 9 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ballesteros (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ballesteros, Cabaritan East, Claveria. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km N of Claveria, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0736° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.093 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km N of Claveria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-03 15:39:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-03 18:25:50 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 326 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000mw1d Id of event.
Event Code 6000mw1d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mw1d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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