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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 44 km E of Dinalongan, Philippines


Earthquake location 16.2069S, 122.3693WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Dinalongan in Philippines on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/09/19 / 2019-09-06 04:26:05 / September 6, 2019 @ 4:26 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.44 km (33 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.3693 East, latitude 16.2069 North, depth = 52.44 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005cmh. Id of event: us70005cmh. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:26:05 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Batal, Alicia, San Mariano. Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Alicia (c. 24 700 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Mariano (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Maddela (c. 9 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Echague (c. 8 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Saguday (c. 7 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Batal (c. 7 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nagtipunan (c. 5 700 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km E of Dinalongan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.3693° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.2069° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km E of Dinalongan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-06 04:26:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-06 04:49:33 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 7.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us70005cmh Id of event.
Event Code 70005cmh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005cmh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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