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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kinangan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.1721S, 125.5127WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kinangan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:46:09 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.54 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/09/19 / 2019-09-10 18:46:09 / September 10, 2019 @ 6:46 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005ebh. Id of event: us70005ebh. Exact location, longitude 125.5127° East, latitude 6.1721° North, depth = 52.54 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Batobato, Malasila, Santo Niño. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 16 km SSW of Kinangan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.5127° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.1721° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSW of Kinangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-10 18:46:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-10 19:24:35 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 312 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 0.894 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 93 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 us70005ebh Id of event.
Event Code 70005ebh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005ebh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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