Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Marihatag in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Marihatag in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/04/24 / 2024-04-27 22:05:26 / April 27, 2024 @ 10:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000muhd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000muhd. The temblor was picked up at 22:05:26 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.6681 East, latitude 8.6422 North, depth = 35.337 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.337 km (22 miles).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cateel, Trento, Salvacion (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bunawan (c. 15 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 44 km ESE of Marihatag, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.6681° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.6422° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.337 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km ESE of Marihatag, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-27 22:05:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-04 04:47:02	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	81	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.899	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us6000muhd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000muhd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000muhd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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