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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Sulop in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.5247S, 125.3267WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Sulop in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 125.3267 East, latitude 6.5247 North, depth = 6.06 km. Event id: us70006tp0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006tp0. Global time and date of event 15/12/19 / 2019-12-15 15:34:39 / December 15, 2019 @ 3:34 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:34:39 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.06 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kiamba, Carmen, Panabo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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 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 SSW of Sulop, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3267° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.5247° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW of Sulop, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-15 15:34:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-02 19:54:18 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 326 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 0.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us70006tp0 Id of event.
Event Code 70006tp0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006tp0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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