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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Aras-asan in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.262S, 127.0404WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Aras-asan in Philippines on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/02/21 / 2021-02-16 14:20:47 / February 16, 2021 @ 2:20 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000di36. Event ids that are associated: us6000di36. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 127.0404° East, 9.262° North. The temblor was reported at 14:20:47 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tandag, Tago, Aras-asan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 90 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 127.0404° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.262° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 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 2021-02-16 14:20:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-16 15:15:05 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 2.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000di36 Id of event.
Event Code 6000di36 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000di36, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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