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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near General Luna in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.6295S, 126.246WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.246 East, latitude 9.6295 North, depth = 46.71 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:02:48 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 46.71 km (29 miles). Global time and date of event 14/03/19 / 2019-03-14 23:02:48 / March 14, 2019 @ 11:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jg21. Unique identifier: us1000jg21.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabadbaran, Tubay, Surigao (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 19 km SSE of General Luna, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.246° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.6295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSE 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 2019-03-14 23:02:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-14 23:19:49 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 2.627 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us1000jg21 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jg21 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jg21, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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