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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Miaga in Philippines


Earthquake location 12.312S, 123.9087WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Miaga in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 05:03:25 / 5:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/19 / 2019-06-11 21:03:25 / June 11, 2019 @ 9:03 pm. Unique identifier: us600042fl. Ids that are associated to the event: us600042fl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 123.9087° East, latitude 12.312° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baligang, Claveria, Tagas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Masbate (c. 47 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Bulan (c. 28 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Irosin (c. 20 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km NE of Miaga, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.9087° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.312° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE of Miaga, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-11 21:03:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-19 03:44:06 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 3.397 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us600042fl Id of event.
Event Code 600042fl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600042fl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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