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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Balayan in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9033S, 120.7109WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Balayan in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us2000a8s7. Event ids that are associated: us2000a8s7. Exact location of event, longitude 120.7109 East, latitude 13.9033 North, depth = 110.25 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/17 / 2017-08-11 23:22:39 / August 11, 2017 @ 11:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110.25 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 07:22:39 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Meycauayan, Tayabas, Lambakin. The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 4 km SSW of Balayan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.7109° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9033° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW of Balayan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-11 23:22:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-08 01:19:28 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 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 0.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us2000a8s7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a8s7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a8s7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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