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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 235 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines


Earthquake location 4.6878S, 127.4965WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 235 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (146 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/24 / 2024-10-30 23:47:24 / October 30, 2024 @ 11:47 pm. Event id: us7000np45. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000np45. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 120.687 km, 127.4965° East, 4.6878° North. The temblor was picked up at 23:47:24 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 120.687 km (75 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 235 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4965° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.6878° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.687 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 235 km SE 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 2024-10-30 23:47:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-31 00:03:03 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us7000np45 Id of event.
Event Code 7000np45 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000np45, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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