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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Silvino Lobos in Philippines


Earthquake location 12.2392S, 124.928WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Silvino Lobos in Philippines on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us20002pc4. Event ids that are associated: us20002pc4. The temblor was reported at 10:16:54 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/06/15 / 2015-06-02 02:16:54 / June 2, 2015 @ 2:16 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.34 km (46 miles). Exact location, longitude 124.928° East, latitude 12.2392° North, depth = 73.34 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Pambujan (c. 10 800 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Babatngon, Borongan, Caibiran.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 12 km ESE of Silvino Lobos, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.928° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2392° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ESE of Silvino Lobos, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-02 02:16:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 03:00:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 24.83 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us20002pc4 Id of event.
Event Code 20002pc4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002pc4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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