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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near General Luna in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.6926S, 126.3336WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jneq. Id of event: us2000jneq. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.3336 East, latitude 9.6926 North, depth = 84.75 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:47:40 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/19 / 2019-02-08 17:47:40 / February 8, 2019 @ 5:47 pm. 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 84.75 km (53 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Surigao, Luna, Mainit (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km ESE of General Luna, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3336° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.6926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 2019-02-08 17:47:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-01 18:16:50 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 312 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 10.157 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 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 us2000jneq Id of event.
Event Code 2000jneq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jneq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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