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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Wawa in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.7248S, 121.0604WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Wawa in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.48 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/04/17 / 2017-04-08 15:57:20 / April 8, 2017 @ 3:57 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008h9k. Unique identifier: us10008h9k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:57:20 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.0604 East, latitude 13.7248 North, depth = 15.48 km.

The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manila, Atimonan, Quiapo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 1 km SSE of Wawa, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0604° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7248° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSE of Wawa, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-08 15:57:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-01 15:58:47 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 0.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us10008h9k Id of event.
Event Code 10008h9k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008h9k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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