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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Barcelona in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 24, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.0845S, 126.5734WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5734 East, latitude 8.0845 North, depth = 87.944 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:37:10 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). 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 87.944 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/24 / 2024-08-03 06:37:10 / August 3, 2024 @ 6:37 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n8mk. Id of event: us7000n8mk.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bah-Bah, San Mariano, Patin-ay. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km ESE of Barcelona, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5734° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.0845° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.944 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km ESE 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 06:37:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-24 05:42:48 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 271 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.41 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us7000n8mk Id of event.
Event Code 7000n8mk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n8mk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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