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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Santa Maria in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines on Friday. Unique identifier: us6000nhri. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nhri. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 23:36:10 / August 2, 2024 @ 11:36 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 47.198 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 126.9844° East, latitude 8.1006° North, depth = 47.198 km. The temblor was reported at 23:36:10 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tagbina, Salvacion, Hinatuan. Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.9844° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.1006° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.198 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-02 23:36:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-02 23:51:54	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.729	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us6000nhri	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nhri	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nhri,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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