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


Earthquake location 9.3314S, 126.0341WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cantilan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 59.58 km (37 miles). Event id: us600053mn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600053mn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/19 / 2019-08-11 04:52:38 / August 11, 2019 @ 4:52 am. Exact location of event, depth 59.58 km, 126.0341° East, 9.3314° North. The temblor was reported at 12:52:38 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nasipit, Barobo, San Francisco. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 6 km E of Cantilan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0341° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.3314° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km E of Cantilan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-11 04:52:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-11 05:11:51 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 2.291 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us600053mn Id of event.
Event Code 600053mn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600053mn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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