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


Earthquake location 9.7255S, 126.4085WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 10:40:09 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70003g9t. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003g9t. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.4085 East, latitude 9.7255 North, depth = 95.36 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 95.36 km (59 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 02:40:09 / April 24, 2019 @ 2:40 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitcharao, Alegria, Aras-asan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kitcharao (c. 7 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and one 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.

Questions or comments?

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: 28 km ESE of General Luna, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4085° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7255° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2019-04-24 02:40:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-07 03:28:02 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 2.763 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us70003g9t Id of event.
Event Code 70003g9t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003g9t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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