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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 6 km SSE of Alegria, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.451S, 126.0305WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Alegria in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 14:38:12 / September 4, 2016 @ 2:38 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10006mr9. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006mr9. The temblor was reported at 22:38:12 / 10:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.0305 East, latitude 8.451 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Halapitan, Tubay, Calabugao (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km SSE of Alegria, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0305° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.451° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSE of Alegria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-04 14:38:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-28 13:55:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 326 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 1.443 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us10006mr9 Id of event.
Event Code 10006mr9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006mr9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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