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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.1831S, 125.9944WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:09:23 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.544 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n8xe. Id of event: us6000n8xe. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/06/24 / 2024-06-22 16:09:23 / June 22, 2024 @ 4:09 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 125.9944° East, latitude 5.1831° North, depth = 10.544 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan, Sarangani (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 63 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9944° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.1831° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.544 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km ESE 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 2024-06-22 16:09:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-18 13:32:11 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us6000n8xe Id of event.
Event Code 6000n8xe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n8xe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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