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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.6696S, 125.1349WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 13:16:35 / March 16, 2016 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:16:35 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.05 km (32 miles). Unique identifier: us20005asp. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005asp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 125.1349 East, latitude 4.6696 North, depth = 52.05 km.

Event epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sarangani (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1349° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.6696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km SSW 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 2016-03-16 13:16:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-10 06:45:03 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 354 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 2.424 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 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 us20005asp Id of event.
Event Code 20005asp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005asp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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