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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Aras-asan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/10/24 / 2024-10-02 01:20:37 / October 2, 2024 @ 1:20 am. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:20:37 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). 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 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000nhld. Event ids that are associated: us7000nhld. Exact location of event, longitude 126.9206 East, latitude 8.9947 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Barobo (c. 9 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tagbina, Barobo, Lianga (min 5000 pop).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km E of Aras-asan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.9206° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.9947° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68 km E of Aras-asan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-02 01:20:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-02 01:36:26	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	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.329	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us7000nhld	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nhld	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nhld,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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