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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Kinablangan in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.7941S, 126.946WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kinablangan in Philippines on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.4 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 126.946° East, 7.7941° North, depth 34.4 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/11/17 / 2017-11-10 00:19:46 / November 10, 2017 @ 12:19 am. Id of earthquake: us2000bqgt. Event ids that are associated: us2000bqgt. The temblor was detected at 08:19:46 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Compostela, Salvacion, Hinatuan. Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fifteen 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km ENE of Kinablangan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.946° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.7941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km ENE of Kinablangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-10 00:19:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-19 05:49:57 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 326 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 1.534 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us2000bqgt Id of event.
Event Code 2000bqgt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bqgt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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