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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Namuac in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 21, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9427S, 121.1106WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Namuac in Philippines on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, 121.1106° East, 18.9427° North, depth 35 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:28:31 / 4:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/24 / 2024-05-21 04:28:31 / May 21, 2024 @ 4:28 am. Id of earthquake: us6000mzz6. Event ids that are associated: us6000mzz6.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Laoag, Vintar, Bacarra. Epicenter of the event was 99 km (62 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Bacarra (c. 9 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Cabaritan East (c. 9 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pasuquin (c. 5 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ballesteros (c. 5 600 pop).

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

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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. 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: 37 km N of Namuac, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1106° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9427° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km N of Namuac, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-21 04:28:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-21 05:06:27 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us6000mzz6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mzz6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mzz6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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