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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Sangay in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.2206S, 123.422WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Sangay in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57.776 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 57.776 km, 123.422° East, 6.2206° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/11/24 / 2024-11-30 16:10:47 / November 30, 2024 @ 4:10 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nv5u. Unique identifier: us7000nv5u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:10:47 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bantogon (c. 5 400 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Puloypuloy (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puloypuloy, Kalamansig, Bantogon (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 seven 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. 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: 73 km WSW of Sangay, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.422° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.2206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.776 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73 km WSW of Sangay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-30 16:10:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-30 17:16:51 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us7000nv5u Id of event.
Event Code 7000nv5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nv5u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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