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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 55 km SE of Caburan, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.6395S, 126.0557WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Caburan in Philippines on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:54:37 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000mp3p. Event ids that are associated: us7000mp3p. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 107.275 km (67 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/05/24 / 2024-05-30 22:54:37 / May 30, 2024 @ 10:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 126.0557° East, 5.6395° North, depth 107.275 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malita, Alabel, Glan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 55 km SE of Caburan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0557° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6395° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.275 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55 km SE of Caburan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-30 22:54:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-30 23:11:00 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 354 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 103 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mp3p Id of event.
Event Code 7000mp3p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mp3p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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