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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Carrascal in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.4211S, 126.0036WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Carrascal in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/19 / 2019-07-18 17:40:39 / July 18, 2019 @ 5:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 126.0036° East, 9.4211° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70004nax. Unique identifier: us70004nax. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:40:39 / 1:40 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barobo, San Francisco, Patin-ay (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 8 km NE of Carrascal, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0036° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.4211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NE of Carrascal, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-18 17:40:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-18 18:02:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 369 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 8.699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us70004nax Id of event.
Event Code 70004nax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004nax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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