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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 19 km SSE of Tubajon, Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Tubajon in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 125.6071 East, latitude 10.1617 North, depth = 117.804 km. Id of earthquake: us7000nuhy. Event ids that are associated: us7000nuhy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 117.804 km (73 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/24 / 2024-11-27 12:33:14 / November 27, 2024 @ 12:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:33:14 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cantilan, Guiuan, Hilongos. Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bato (c. 10 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop).

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

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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: 19 km SSE of Tubajon, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.6071° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.1617° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	117.804 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km SSE of Tubajon, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-27 12:33:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-27 12:58:13	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	369	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	94	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.072	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us7000nuhy	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nuhy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nuhy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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