Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near General Luna in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.2784 East, latitude 9.7512 North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/02/19 / 2019-02-09 02:17:06 / February 9, 2019 @ 2:17 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000jnfy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jnfy. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:17:06 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aras-asan, Mainit, Surigao (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km ESE of General Luna, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.2784° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.7512° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km ESE 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	2019-02-09 02:17:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-27 06:00:37	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	13.922	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	us2000jnfy	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jnfy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jnfy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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