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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 34 km NE of Kinablangan, Philippines


Earthquake location 7.929S, 126.7506WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kinablangan in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nhsl. Unique identifier: us6000nhsl. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 78.852 km (49 miles). Global time and date of event 03/08/24 / 2024-08-03 02:14:45 / August 3, 2024 @ 2:14 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:14:45 / 2:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 78.852 km, 126.7506° East, 7.929° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nabunturan (c. 16 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Mariano, San Ignacio, Nabunturan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 34 km NE of Kinablangan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7506° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.929° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.852 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km NE of Kinablangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-03 02:14:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-03 02:47:07 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000nhsl Id of event.
Event Code 6000nhsl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nhsl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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