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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.7259S, 126.3058WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.181 km (68 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nxrl. Id of event: us7000nxrl. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/24 / 2024-12-11 03:27:57 / December 11, 2024 @ 3:27 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.3058 East, latitude 5.7259 North, depth = 109.181 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:27:57 / 3:27 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop). 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 Talagutong, Caburan.

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

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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. 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: 71 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3058° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.7259° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.181 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71 km SSE 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 2024-12-11 03:27:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-11 03:52:41 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us7000nxrl Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxrl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nxrl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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