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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Sulangan in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 8, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.9868S, 125.7902WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Sulangan in Philippines. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:28:00 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nqi6. Id of event: us6000nqi6. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/24 / 2024-09-08 19:28:00 / September 8, 2024 @ 7:28 pm. Exact location, longitude 125.7902° East, latitude 10.9868° North, depth = 41.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.55 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Burauen, Panalanoy, Palo. Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Burauen (c. 14 300 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km NW of Sulangan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.7902° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.9868° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km NW of Sulangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-08 19:28:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-08 19:45:55 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 10.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nqi6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nqi6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nqi6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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