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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near San Miguel in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.9073S, 125.8342WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from San Miguel in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/12/24 / 2024-12-04 17:06:48 / December 4, 2024 @ 5:06 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.8342 East, latitude 8.9073 North, depth = 131.505 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:06:48 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nzk0. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nzk0. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 131.505 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Libertad, Calabugao, Medina (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mariano (c. 70 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km WSW of San Miguel, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.8342° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.9073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.505 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km WSW of San Miguel, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-04 17:06:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-18 16:01:33 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 259 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.843 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us7000nzk0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzk0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzk0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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