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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Llorente in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.4417S, 125.6696WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Llorente in Philippines on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:44:02 / 11:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.6696 East, latitude 11.4417 North, depth = 37.964 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.964 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pe3v. Id of event: us7000pe3v. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/25 / 2025-02-16 11:44:02 / February 16, 2025 @ 11:44 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Burauen, Arteche, Alangalang. The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Burauen (c. 14 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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 ENE of Llorente, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6696° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.4417° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.964 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km ENE of Llorente, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-16 11:44:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-17 17:25:37 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 340 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 70 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us7000pe3v Id of event.
Event Code 7000pe3v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pe3v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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