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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 2 km ENE of Biao, Philippines


Earthquake location 7.1699S, 125.5398WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Biao in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.5398° East, 7.1699° North, depth 34.09 km. The temblor was reported at 01:33:25 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.09 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10003vb6. Event ids that are associated: us10003vb6. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/11/15 / 2015-11-06 17:33:25 / November 6, 2015 @ 5:33 pm.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mailag, Badak, Banisilan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 13 km (8 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Valencia (c. 83 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 2 km ENE of Biao, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.5398° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.1699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Biao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-06 17:33:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-06 18:48:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 343 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 0.106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 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 us10003vb6 Id of event.
Event Code 10003vb6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vb6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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