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Light earthquake 4 mag, 51 km E of Sarangani, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.3237S, 125.9225WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/17 / 2017-01-30 12:40:50 / January 30, 2017 @ 12:40 pm. The temblor was reported at 20:40:50 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.99 km (50 miles). Exact location, longitude 125.9225° East, latitude 5.3237° North, depth = 79.99 km. Id of earthquake: us20008jn6. Event ids that are associated: us20008jn6.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baliton, Pangyan, Caburan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 three and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 51 km E of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9225° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.3237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km E of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-30 12:40:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-17 08:53:01 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 246 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 4.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us20008jn6 Id of event.
Event Code 20008jn6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008jn6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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