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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 24 km E of Sarangani, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.4279S, 125.682WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 125.682° East, latitude 5.4279° North, depth = 179.084 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/24 / 2024-06-26 07:18:06 / June 26, 2024 @ 7:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:18:06 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n88a. Unique identifier: us6000n88a. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 179.084 km (111 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was General Santos, Talagutong, Buayan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Buayan (c. 14 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

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: 24 km E of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.682° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.4279° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 179.084 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km E of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-26 07:18:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-27 07:09:14 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 312 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 1.635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us6000n88a Id of event.
Event Code 6000n88a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n88a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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