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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Kinablangan in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.8778S, 126.7079WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Kinablangan in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 126.7079° East, 7.8778° North, depth 78.462 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/08/24 / 2024-08-04 19:12:08 / August 4, 2024 @ 7:12 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000ni2u. Event ids that are associated: us6000ni2u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 78.462 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:12:08 / 7:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nabunturan (c. 16 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barobo, San Mariano, San Ignacio (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days fifty-three 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.

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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: 26 km NE of Kinablangan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7079° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.8778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.462 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 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 2024-08-04 19:12:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-04 19:33:26 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 340 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.377 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us6000ni2u Id of event.
Event Code 6000ni2u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ni2u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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