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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Mangili in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.7544S, 126.0905WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Mangili in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 126.0905° East, 5.7544° North, depth 102.668 km. Id of earthquake: us6000nw62. Event ids that are associated: us6000nw62. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:44:00 / 8:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 102.668 km (64 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/10/24 / 2024-10-02 20:44:00 / October 2, 2024 @ 8:44 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (60 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alabel, Lun Pequeño, Baliton.

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 one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 52 km ESE of Mangili, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0905° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.7544° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.668 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km ESE of Mangili, 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 20:44:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-03 17:25:20 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 1.402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us6000nw62 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nw62 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nw62, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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