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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Glan Peidu in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.8783S, 125.1948WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Glan Peidu in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 125.1948° East, 5.8783° North, depth 47.75 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/16 / 2016-02-15 15:14:30 / February 15, 2016 @ 3:14 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10004qts. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004qts. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:14:30 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.75 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Magsaysay, Digos, Tantangan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km NW of Glan Peidu, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1948° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.8783° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NW of Glan Peidu, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-15 15:14:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-09 17:55:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 341 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 1.243 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 105 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 us10004qts Id of event.
Event Code 10004qts An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004qts, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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