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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 2 km WSW of Banalo, Philippines

Posted by admin on April 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.6367S, 121.1582WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Banalo in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 57.37 km, 121.1582° East, 13.6367° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.37 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/04/17 / 2017-04-05 14:32:46 / April 5, 2017 @ 2:32 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:32:46 / 10:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10008em0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008em0.

Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Binangonan (c. 219 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Morong, Santa Maria, Tanay.

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

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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. 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: 2 km WSW of Banalo, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1582° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6367° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km WSW of Banalo, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-05 14:32:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-05 21:27:36 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 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 8.805 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us10008em0 Id of event.
Event Code 10008em0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008em0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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