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

Posted by admin on March 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.5218S, 124.7098WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Banisilan in Philippines on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pxh8. Id of event: us6000pxh8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 07/03/25 / 2025-03-07 16:53:59 / March 7, 2025 @ 4:53 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.7098 East, latitude 7.5218 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:53:59 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter). 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 Bato, Baracatan, Magsaysay (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Iligan City (c. 312 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mantampay (c. 265 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Marawi City (c. 143 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Valencia (c. 83 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 3 km NNW of Banisilan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.7098° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.5218° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km NNW of Banisilan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-07 16:53:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-07 17:12:53 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us6000pxh8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pxh8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pxh8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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