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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Magsaysay in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.7118S, 125.1311WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Magsaysay in Philippines on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700061hx. Id of event: us700061hx. Exact location of event, longitude 125.1311 East, latitude 6.7118 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:56:40 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/19 / 2019-10-31 08:56:40 / October 31, 2019 @ 8:56 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pigcawayan, Lupon, Glan. Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km SW of Magsaysay, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1311° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7118° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SW of Magsaysay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-31 08:56:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-31 09:11:36 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 0.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us700061hx Id of event.
Event Code 700061hx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700061hx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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