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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Barcelona in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.1131S, 126.7759WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000n90q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n90q. The temblor was detected at 22:05:41 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.7759° East, latitude 8.1131° North, depth = 52.875 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.875 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/08/24 / 2024-08-05 22:05:41 / August 5, 2024 @ 10:05 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bunawan, Monkayo, Barobo. Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bunawan (c. 15 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop). Nearby 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 E of Barcelona, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7759° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.1131° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.875 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 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 2024-08-05 22:05:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-04 04:46:01 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 246 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.575 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us7000n90q Id of event.
Event Code 7000n90q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n90q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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