Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Santa Maria in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 14, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.0712S, 126.9617WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/08/24 / 2024-08-19 19:46:04 / August 19, 2024 @ 7:46 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nd9k. Id of event: us7000nd9k. Exact location of event, longitude 126.9617 East, latitude 8.0712 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:46:04 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvacion, Hinatuan, Bislig (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Salvacion (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 57 km E of Santa Maria, Philippines.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9617° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.0712° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 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 2024-08-19 19:46:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-14 15:26:26 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 312 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us7000nd9k Id of event.
Event Code 7000nd9k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nd9k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today