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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 100 km E of Sarangani, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.3479S, 126.3731WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 02:54:11 / 2:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/08/20 / 2020-08-26 02:54:11 / August 26, 2020 @ 2:54 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.3731 East, latitude 5.3479 North, depth = 122.6 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 122.6 km (76 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bd2f. Unique identifier: us7000bd2f.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sarangani (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km E of Sarangani, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3731° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.3479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100 km E of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-26 02:54:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-26 03:10:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us7000bd2f Id of event.
Event Code 7000bd2f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bd2f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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