Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Paluan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Paluan in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.04 km (40 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/16 / 2016-07-03 12:49:38 / July 3, 2016 @ 12:49 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:49:38 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 64.04 km, 120.546° East, 13.3616° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us100061yv. Unique identifier: us100061yv.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Nasugbu (c. 62 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Patuto (c. 52 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Balayan (c. 50 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Taal (c. 39 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ambulong, Balele, Calintaan. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km ESE of Paluan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.546° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.3616° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km ESE of Paluan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-03 12:49:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-17 07:47:27	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	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	8.379	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us100061yv	Id of event.
Event Code	100061yv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100061yv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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