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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Gumian in Philippines


Earthquake location 14.82S, 121.4287WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Gumian in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100076lm. Unique identifier: us100076lm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.27 km (32 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.4287 East, latitude 14.82 North, depth = 52.27 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/11/16 / 2016-11-10 07:11:05 / November 10, 2016 @ 7:11 am. The temblor was reported at 15:11:05 / 3:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mabalacat City, Janagdong, Babo-Pangulo. Epicenter of the event was 54 km (33 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km WNW of Gumian, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4287° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.82° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km WNW of Gumian, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-10 07:11:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-10 07:33:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 62 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 390 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 7.962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us100076lm Id of event.
Event Code 100076lm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100076lm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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