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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Calolbon in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.4537S, 124.1312WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Calolbon in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:24:53 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 06:24:53 / January 11, 2017 @ 6:24 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007sit. Unique identifier: us10007sit. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.05 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 124.1312° East, 13.4537° North, depth 67.05 km.

Event epicenter was 56 km (34 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Tabaco (c. 57 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Jose (c. 35 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Matnog, Tinambac, Bula (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 16 km SSE of Calolbon, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.1312° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4537° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSE of Calolbon, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-11 06:24:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 06:43:39 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 4.1 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 355 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 9.923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us10007sit Id of event.
Event Code 10007sit An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007sit, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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