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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Aras-asan in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.8428S, 126.588WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 04:57:35 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 20:57:35 / September 25, 2019 @ 8:57 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005lcz. Id of event: us70005lcz. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude 126.588° East, latitude 8.8428° North, depth = 35 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis, Bunawan, Talacogon (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Talacogon (c. 15 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Bunawan (c. 15 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 six and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 31 km E of Aras-asan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.588° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8428° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km E of Aras-asan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-25 20:57:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 21:54:57 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 354 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 2.025 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us70005lcz Id of event.
Event Code 70005lcz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005lcz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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