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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 14 km E of Barcelona, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.1649S, 126.5697WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 22:34:34 / August 2, 2024 @ 10:34 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude 126.5697° East, latitude 8.1649° North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:34:34 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000n8ns. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n8ns.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Luis, San Mariano, Andop. The epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km E of Barcelona, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5697° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.1649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 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 2024-08-02 22:34:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-27 04:28:21 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 19.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us7000n8ns Id of event.
Event Code 7000n8ns An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n8ns, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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