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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 42 km E of General Luna, Philippines


Earthquake location 9.7973S, 126.5479WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/01/19 / 2019-01-23 13:30:32 / January 23, 2019 @ 1:30 pm. The temblor was detected at 21:30:32 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000j7ts. Event ids that are associated: us2000j7ts. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 126.5479° East, 9.7973° North, depth 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tago, Claver, Tandag (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 42 km E of General Luna, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5479° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km E of General Luna, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-23 13:30:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-15 07:28:04 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 2.874 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us2000j7ts Id of event.
Event Code 2000j7ts An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j7ts, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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