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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Alabel in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.08S, 125.312WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Alabel in Philippines on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 125.312° East, 6.08° North, depth 111.03 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/16 / 2016-10-14 20:52:05 / October 14, 2016 @ 8:52 pm. Unique identifier: us20007e7u. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007e7u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 111.03 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:52:05 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Makilala, Inawayan, Baracatan (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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 SE of Alabel, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.312° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.08° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE of Alabel, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-14 20:52:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-14 21:24:27 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 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 1.018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us20007e7u Id of event.
Event Code 20007e7u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007e7u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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