Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Callaguip in Philippines


Earthquake location 18.1151S, 120.0428WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Callaguip in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003e4s. Id of event: us70003e4s. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 120.0428° East, 18.1151° North. Global time and date of event 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 17:33:27 / April 29, 2019 @ 5:33 pm UTC/GMT. 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 01:33:27 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bantay (c. 10 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Bacarra (c. 9 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cabugao (c. 6 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vigan, Bantay, Dingras (min 5000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen 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.

Questions or comments?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km W of Callaguip, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.0428° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km W of Callaguip, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-29 17:33:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-30 13:15:31 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 4.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70003e4s Id of event.
Event Code 70003e4s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003e4s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply