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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Masbate in Philippines


Earthquake location 12.4167S, 123.6419WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Masbate in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.022 km (7 miles). Event id: us6000nwua. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nwua. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:26:36 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/10/24 / 2024-10-06 05:26:36 / October 6, 2024 @ 5:26 am. Exact location of event, longitude 123.6419 East, latitude 12.4167 North, depth = 12.022 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malilipot, Libon, Bacacay. Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Masbate (c. 47 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Malilipot (c. 33 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Bulan (c. 28 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km NNE of Masbate, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.6419° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.4167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.022 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NNE of Masbate, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-06 05:26:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-06 06:06:17 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 354 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.646 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 127 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 us6000nwua Id of event.
Event Code 6000nwua An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nwua, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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