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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 11 km SSW of Makilala, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.8467S, 125.0739WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Makilala in Philippines on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 02:38:37 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000623t. Id of event: us7000623t. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.22 km (11 miles). Exact location, longitude 125.0739° East, latitude 6.8467° North, depth = 18.22 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/19 / 2019-11-01 18:38:37 / November 1, 2019 @ 6:38 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maramag, Upi, South Upi. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 11 km SSW of Makilala, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0739° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8467° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW of Makilala, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-01 18:38:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-01 19:06:42 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 369 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 0.548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us7000623t Id of event.
Event Code 7000623t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000623t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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