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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Barcelona in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.2553S, 126.7699WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 22:33:46 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 22:33:46 / August 2, 2024 @ 10:33 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000n8np. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n8np. Exact location of event, longitude 126.7699 East, latitude 8.2553 North, depth = 52.726 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.726 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Loreto, Compostela, Patin-ay (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Bunawan (c. 15 500 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 fourty, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fifty-two 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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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. 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: 38 km ENE of Barcelona, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7699° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.2553° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.726 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km ENE 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 22:33:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-27 04:15:59 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 354 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.667 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us7000n8np Id of event.
Event Code 7000n8np An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n8np, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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