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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 84 km ENE of Kinablangan, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.0689S, 127.2141WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Kinablangan in Philippines. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:32:43 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 127.2141° East, 8.0689° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 19/08/24 / 2024-08-19 15:32:43 / August 19, 2024 @ 3:32 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred 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). Event id: us7000n7xg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n7xg.

Event epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hinatuan, Bislig, Baganga. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 84 km ENE of Kinablangan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2141° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.0689° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km ENE 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 2024-08-19 15:32:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-19 16:35:12 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 369 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us7000n7xg Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7xg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7xg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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