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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 4 km NE of Naval, Philippines


Earthquake location 11.588S, 124.4314WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Naval in Philippines on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 15:04:09 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cqxg. Unique identifier: us2000cqxg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 07:04:09 / January 16, 2018 @ 7:04 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.4314 East, latitude 11.588 North, depth = 34.08 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.08 km (21 miles).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bogo (c. 23 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bantayan (c. 19 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Esperanza, Dulag, Alegria (min 5000 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 one and in the last 365 days twelve 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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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: 4 km NE of Naval, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.4314° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NE of Naval, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-16 07:04:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-30 08:37:54 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 4.63 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 107 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 us2000cqxg Id of event.
Event Code 2000cqxg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cqxg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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