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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Bunawan in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.2629S, 126.0562WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Bunawan in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 28/06/19 / 2019-06-28 07:04:22 / June 28, 2019 @ 7:04 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us700046fs. Event ids that are associated: us700046fs. The temblor was reported at 15:04:22 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.0562 East, latitude 8.2629 North, depth = 35 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Managok, La Libertad, Libertad (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NE of Bunawan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0562° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.2629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE of Bunawan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-28 07:04:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-28 07:51:43 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 340 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 1.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us700046fs Id of event.
Event Code 700046fs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700046fs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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