Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Santa Maria in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines. Event id: us7000n8mg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n8mg. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:30:11 / 10:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 22:30:11 / August 2, 2024 @ 10:30 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.7652 East, latitude 8.0167 North, depth = 35 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loreto, San Mariano, Lianga. Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Nabunturan (c. 16 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km E of Santa Maria, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.7652° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.0167° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 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	2024-08-02 22:30:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-27 02:56:57	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.506	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us7000n8mg	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n8mg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n8mg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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