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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 235 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines


Earthquake location 4.6579S, 127.4573WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 235 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines (146 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 06:30:38 / June 29, 2015 @ 6:30 am. Unique identifier: us10002mae. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002mae. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 123.33 km (77 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.4573 East, latitude 4.6579 North, depth = 123.33 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:30:38 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 235 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4573° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.6579° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 235km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-29 06:30:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 07:11:42 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us10002mae Id of event.
Event Code 10002mae An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mae, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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