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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Pangyan in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.6625S, 125.3175WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pangyan in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us10006cjn. Event ids that are associated: us10006cjn. Exact location of event, longitude 125.3175 East, latitude 5.6625 North, depth = 71.59 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/16 / 2016-08-10 08:17:46 / August 10, 2016 @ 8:17 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:17:46 / 4:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 71.59 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maitum, Basiawan, Tampakan (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 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 5 km SE of Pangyan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3175° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6625° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 71.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Pangyan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-10 08:17:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-10 08:45:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 1.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 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 us10006cjn Id of event.
Event Code 10006cjn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006cjn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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