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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Santa Maria in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 28, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.9754S, 126.815WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines on Friday. Id of earthquake: us7000n8lv. Event ids that are associated: us7000n8lv. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 22:35:23 / August 2, 2024 @ 10:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66.346 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:35:23 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.815° East, latitude 7.9754° North, depth = 66.346 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Bunawan (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manat, Barobo, Montevista (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 40 km E of Santa Maria, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.815° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.9754° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.346 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 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 22:35:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-28 04:41:21 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 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us7000n8lv Id of event.
Event Code 7000n8lv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n8lv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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