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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 36 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines

Posted by admin on December 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.0135S, 126.6205WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nz9f. Id of event: us7000nz9f. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.6205 East, latitude 9.0135 North, depth = 31.986 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:48:59 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.986 km (20 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 12:48:59 / December 16, 2024 @ 12:48 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bislig, Patin-ay, San Francisco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 36 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6205° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.0135° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.986 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-16 12:48:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-23 09:39:21 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000nz9f Id of event.
Event Code 7000nz9f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nz9f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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