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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 54 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines


Earthquake location 9.1188S, 126.7508WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 07:30:18 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.808 km (30 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.7508 East, latitude 9.1188 North, depth = 48.808 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/24 / 2024-07-04 07:30:18 / July 4, 2024 @ 7:30 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mx0l. Id of event: us7000mx0l.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tagbina, Barobo, Hinatuan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Barobo (c. 9 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 54 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7508° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.808 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-04 07:30:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-04 07:56:36 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us7000mx0l Id of event.
Event Code 7000mx0l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mx0l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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