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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Sangay in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.2546S, 123.7619WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Sangay in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/18 / 2018-11-12 14:49:14 / November 12, 2018 @ 2:49 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.7619 East, latitude 6.2546 North, depth = 25.22 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.22 km (16 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:49:14 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hqu5. Id of event: us1000hqu5.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maganoy, Kiamba, Esperanza. The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Laguilayan (c. 17 800 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Maganoy (c. 17 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from South Upi (c. 12 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kiamba (c. 11 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Upi (c. 9 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Maitum (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 37 km SW of Sangay, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.7619° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.2546° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km SW of Sangay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-12 14:49:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-12 15:12:08 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 354 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 1.978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us1000hqu5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqu5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqu5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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