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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 10 km NNE of Itbayat, Philippines


Earthquake location 20.8707S, 121.8798WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.8798 East, latitude 20.8707 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:13:49 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/19 / 2019-07-26 08:13:49 / July 26, 2019 @ 8:13 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us60004vsl. Unique identifier: us60004vsl.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 10 km NNE of Itbayat, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8798° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.8707° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNE of Itbayat, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-26 08:13:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-26 08:31:44 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 2.075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us60004vsl Id of event.
Event Code 60004vsl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004vsl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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