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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Marihatag in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 24, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.7365S, 126.3825WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Marihatag in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 126.3825 East, latitude 8.7365 North, depth = 40.922 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.922 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000nt2h. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nt2h. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/24 / 2024-09-17 12:09:47 / September 17, 2024 @ 12:09 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:09:47 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Butuan, Tungao, Veruela.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 12 km SE of Marihatag, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3825° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.7365° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.922 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km SE of Marihatag, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-17 12:09:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-24 11:59:34 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 326 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.837 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us6000nt2h Id of event.
Event Code 6000nt2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nt2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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