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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 35 km ENE of Hinatuan, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.5437S, 126.6047WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hinatuan in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 10:04:46 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/09/24 / 2024-09-30 10:04:46 / September 30, 2024 @ 10:04 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.864 km (54 miles). Unique identifier: us7000nh7k. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nh7k. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.6047 East, latitude 8.5437 North, depth = 86.864 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayugan, San Luis, Kinablangan. Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km ENE of Hinatuan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6047° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5437° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.864 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km ENE of Hinatuan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-30 10:04:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-08 06:42:07 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.783 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us7000nh7k Id of event.
Event Code 7000nh7k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nh7k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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