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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kimanuit in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.7758S, 124.6273WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kimanuit in Philippines on Saturday. Unique identifier: us7000ngef. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ngef. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.032 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/08/24 / 2024-08-31 08:10:30 / August 31, 2024 @ 8:10 am. Exact location of event, depth 9.032 km, 124.6273° East, 7.7758° North. The temblor was detected at 08:10:30 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ozamiz City, Maranding, Calabugao (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cagayan de Oro (c. 445 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Iligan City (c. 312 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mantampay (c. 265 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Marawi City (c. 143 600 pop).

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. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 10 km W of Kimanuit, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.6273° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.7758° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.032 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km W of Kimanuit, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-31 08:10:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-26 06:50:24 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.176 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 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 us7000ngef Id of event.
Event Code 7000ngef An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ngef, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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