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


Earthquake location 9.6546S, 126.7356WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 126.7356° East, 9.6546° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003ige. Id of event: us70003ige. Global time and date of event 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 13:36:58 / April 29, 2019 @ 1:36 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:36:58 / 9:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aras-asan, Cantilan, Tago (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 64 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 126.7356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.6546° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2019-04-29 13:36:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-08 20:17:11 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 13.646 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us70003ige Id of event.
Event Code 70003ige An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ige, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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