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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Cabacao in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.3429S, 120.6237WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cabacao in Philippines on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/16 / 2016-04-18 22:47:37 / April 18, 2016 @ 10:47 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 56.21 km (35 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:47:37 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 120.6237° East, latitude 13.3429° North, depth = 56.21 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005bz1. Id of event: us10005bz1.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Socorro, Bulacnin, Balete. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nasugbu (c. 62 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Balayan (c. 50 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Taal (c. 39 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km WNW of Cabacao, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.6237° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Cabacao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-18 22:47:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-04 23:19:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 259 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 0.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us10005bz1 Id of event.
Event Code 10005bz1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005bz1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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