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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 29 km SSE of Dicabisagan, Philippines


Earthquake location 16.8306S, 122.5049WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Dicabisagan in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us700069xg. Event ids that are associated: us700069xg. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:28:24 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/19 / 2019-11-11 00:28:24 / November 11, 2019 @ 12:28 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.5049 East, latitude 16.8306 North, depth = 35 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Mateo, Batal, San Manuel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Ilagan (c. 72 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Alicia (c. 24 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from San Mateo (c. 16 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Mariano (c. 12 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Manuel (c. 9 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Naguilian (c. 8 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Salinungan Proper (c. 8 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km SSE of Dicabisagan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.5049° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8306° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSE of Dicabisagan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-11 00:28:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 00:38:02 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 3.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us700069xg Id of event.
Event Code 700069xg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700069xg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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