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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Koronadal in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.538S, 124.8288WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Koronadal in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 124.8288 East, latitude 6.538 North, depth = 373.47 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 10:11:38 / June 11, 2016 @ 10:11 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us200063sy. Event ids that are associated: us200063sy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 373.47 km (232 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:11:38 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Awang, Dalumangcob, Pigcawayan.

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 4 km NNW of Koronadal, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.8288° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 373.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW of Koronadal, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-11 10:11:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-11 10:45:03 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 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 0.913 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 45 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 us200063sy Id of event.
Event Code 200063sy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063sy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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