Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 3 km SW of San Isidro, Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Isidro in Philippines. Event id: us1000bzcl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bzcl. Exact location of earthquake, 126.0618° East, 9.9179° North, depth 62.9 km. The temblor was reported at 21:39:51 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/12/17 / 2017-12-19 13:39:51 / December 19, 2017 @ 1:39 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.9 km (39 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tandag, Kitcharao, Alegria. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 3 km SW of San Isidro, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.0618° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.9179° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SW of San Isidro, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-19 13:39:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-03 20:15:28	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	14.164	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us1000bzcl	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bzcl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bzcl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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