Earthquakes today

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

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 3 km N of Bulo, Philippines


Earthquake location 12.4433S, 123.5617WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Bulo in Philippines on Monday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:29:07 / 3:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 123.5617° East, 12.4433° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 03:29:07 / September 16, 2024 @ 3:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ne6b. Unique identifier: us7000ne6b. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malilipot, San Pascual, Buluang (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Masbate (c. 47 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Malilipot (c. 33 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Bulan (c. 28 500 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

Did you feel the quake?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 3 km N of Bulo, Philippines.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.5617° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.4433° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km N of Bulo, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-16 03:29:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-16 03:50:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 340 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 14.993 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us7000ne6b Id of event.
Event Code 7000ne6b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ne6b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply