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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Itbayat in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 17, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.9895S, 120.9316WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 97 km WNW of Itbayat, Philippines (60 miles). Exact location of event, depth 34.47 km, 120.9316° East, 20.9895° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us100048d3. Unique identifier: us100048d3. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/15 / 2015-12-19 14:53:33 / December 19, 2015 @ 2:53 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.47 km (21 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:53:33 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 97 km WNW of Itbayat, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9316° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.9895° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km WNW of Itbayat, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-19 14:53:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-17 17:01:45 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 1.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us100048d3 Id of event.
Event Code 100048d3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048d3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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