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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 3.46S, 126.5278WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 245 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines (152 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003pbq. Unique identifier: us10003pbq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.29 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:07:44 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/15 / 2015-10-17 10:07:44 / October 17, 2015 @ 10:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5278 East, latitude 3.46 North, depth = 44.29 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 245 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5278° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.46° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 245km SSE 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 2015-10-17 10:07:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-17 10:26:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us10003pbq Id of event.
Event Code 10003pbq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003pbq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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