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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 29 km E of Lapuan, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.1655S, 125.9625WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Lapuan in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g1yj. Id of event: us1000g1yj. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 05:16:30 / July 28, 2018 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 142.14 km (88 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.9625 East, latitude 6.1655 North, depth = 142.14 km. The temblor was reported at 13:16:30 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (54 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pangyan, Hagonoy, Guihing Proper (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. 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: 29 km E of Lapuan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9625° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.1655° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km E of Lapuan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-28 05:16:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-12 07:36:19 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 259 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 0.975 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us1000g1yj Id of event.
Event Code 1000g1yj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g1yj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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