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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 5 km WSW of Sulop, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.5757S, 125.2949WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Sulop in Philippines. Event id: us7000alkg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000alkg. Exact location of event, longitude 125.2949 East, latitude 6.5757 North, depth = 26.05 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.05 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/07/20 / 2020-07-10 18:16:38 / July 10, 2020 @ 6:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:16:38 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Datu Piang, Simod, Pandasan. Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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: 5 km WSW of Sulop, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.2949° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.5757° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km WSW 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 2020-07-10 18:16:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-10 18:57:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 355 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 0.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us7000alkg Id of event.
Event Code 7000alkg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000alkg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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