Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Bao in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Bao in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 122.7107° East, latitude 13.6487° North, depth = 38.97 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20006eyj. Unique identifier: us20006eyj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:37:31 / 7:37 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/07/16 / 2016-07-10 11:37:31 / July 10, 2016 @ 11:37 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.97 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Naga (c. 174 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Daet (c. 78 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Buhi (c. 30 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Atimonan (c. 29 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atimonan, Polangui, Alabat. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 13 km W of Bao, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.7107° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.6487° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km W of Bao, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-10 11:37:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-24 12:32:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	9.386	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us20006eyj	Id of event.
Event Code	20006eyj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006eyj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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