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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Baganga in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.6322S, 126.8082WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Baganga in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 22:21:32 / December 9, 2024 @ 10:21 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.669 km (38 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nxeu. Id of event: us7000nxeu. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:21:32 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.8082 East, latitude 7.6322 North, depth = 61.669 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trento, Nabunturan, Montevista (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nabunturan (c. 16 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 28 km ENE of Baganga, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8082° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.6322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.669 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km ENE of Baganga, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-09 22:21:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-09 22:44:29 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 312 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.341 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us7000nxeu Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxeu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nxeu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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