Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Basay in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Basay in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 122.5009 East, latitude 9.0308 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/24 / 2024-05-03 04:38:02 / May 3, 2024 @ 4:38 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 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). Event id: us6000mvwr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvwr. The temblor was picked up at 04:38:02 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Dumaguete (c. 113 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bais (c. 65 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tanjay (c. 39 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bayawan (c. 36 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sibulan (c. 28 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Santa Catalina (c. 26 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sipalay (c. 24 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Inayauan, Sibulan, Dumaguete. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km SSW of Basay, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.5009° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.0308° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km SSW of Basay, 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 04:38:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-03 21:36:33	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	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	8.051	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 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	us6000mvwr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mvwr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mvwr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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