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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Santa Maria in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.0777S, 127.1746WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n8e3. Id of event: us7000n8e3. Global time and date of event 21/08/24 / 2024-08-21 03:28:23 / August 21, 2024 @ 3:28 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 03:28:23 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 127.1746° East, 8.0777° North, depth 35 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bislig, Baganga, Cateel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 80 km E of Santa Maria, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1746° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.0777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80 km E 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 2024-08-21 03:28:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-21 03:46:54 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 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us7000n8e3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000n8e3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n8e3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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