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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Cortes in Philippines

Posted by admin on April 11, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.2642S, 126.7765WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Cortes in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.173 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us7000pnl3. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pnl3. The temblor was detected at 10:46:38 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/03/25 / 2025-03-29 10:46:38 / March 29, 2025 @ 10:46 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 126.7765 East, latitude 9.2642 North, depth = 9.173 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Socorro, Dapa, Cantilan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km E of Cortes, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7765° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.2642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.173 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km E of Cortes, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-29 10:46:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-11 09:00:28 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 326 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.482 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us7000pnl3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pnl3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pnl3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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