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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 10 km SW of Adams, Philippines


Earthquake location 18.394S, 120.8398WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Adams in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.99 km (24 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 120.8398 East, latitude 18.394 North, depth = 37.99 km. Event id: us10007emh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007emh. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/16 / 2016-12-03 18:52:54 / December 3, 2016 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:52:54 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piat, Magapit, Aguiguican, Magapit (min 5000 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 two and in the last 365 days fourteen 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km SW of Adams, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.8398° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.394° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW of Adams, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-03 18:52:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 17:40:12 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 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 4.407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us10007emh Id of event.
Event Code 10007emh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007emh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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