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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Hinundayan in Philippines


Earthquake location 10.3402S, 125.299WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Hinundayan in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007b3b. Unique identifier: us10007b3b. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:11:54 / 4:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/16 / 2016-11-21 08:11:54 / November 21, 2016 @ 8:11 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.79 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 125.299 East, latitude 10.3402 North, depth = 64.79 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitcharao, Alegria, Mabini (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Burauen (c. 14 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 5 km ESE of Hinundayan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.299° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.3402° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ESE of Hinundayan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-21 08:11:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-21 10:57:24 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 2 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 370 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 3.261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us10007b3b Id of event.
Event Code 10007b3b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007b3b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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