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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Barcelona in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nhsn. Unique identifier: us6000nhsn. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 03/08/24 / 2024-08-03 03:17:08 / August 3, 2024 @ 3:17 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 03:17:08 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.9794° East, latitude 8.1111° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trento, Tagbina, Salvacion. Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 77 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). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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: 60 km E of Barcelona, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.9794° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.1111° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 km E of Barcelona, 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 03:17:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-03 03:36:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	370	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.731	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us6000nhsn	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nhsn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nhsn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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