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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 22 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.941S, 126.5075WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 15:44:33 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.5075 East, latitude 8.941 North, depth = 40.1 km. Event id: us7000d0bm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d0bm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.1 km (25 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/21 / 2021-01-06 15:44:33 / January 6, 2021 @ 3:44 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Socorro, Talacogon, Taligaman. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Talacogon (c. 15 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5075° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22 km ENE of Aras-asan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-06 15:44:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-19 00:53:59 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 312 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 2.074 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 127 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 us7000d0bm Id of event.
Event Code 7000d0bm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d0bm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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