Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Maslog in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Maslog in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bnvg. Id of event: us2000bnvg. Exact location of earthquake, 123.8136° East, 13.1039° North, depth 54.84 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 23:36:04 / 11:36 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/11/17 / 2017-11-05 15:36:04 / November 5, 2017 @ 3:36 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.84 km (34 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Naga (c. 174 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Tabaco (c. 57 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caranan, Alegria, Tinambac. Nearby 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km E of Maslog, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.8136° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.1039° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km E of Maslog, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-05 15:36:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-15 19:41:37	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	2.968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us2000bnvg	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bnvg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bnvg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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