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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.0633S, 126.6528WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:25:05 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/10/24 / 2024-10-04 05:25:05 / October 4, 2024 @ 5:25 am. Exact location of event, depth 167.759 km, 126.6528° East, 6.0633° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 167.759 km (104 miles). Unique identifier: us7000nmvp. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nmvp.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tibanbang. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6528° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0633° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 167.759 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-04 05:25:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-25 05:09:24 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 246 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us7000nmvp Id of event.
Event Code 7000nmvp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nmvp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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