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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Palauig in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.4399S, 119.5322WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Palauig in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 119.5322° East, 15.4399° North, depth 19.53 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d70f. Unique identifier: us2000d70f. The temblor was picked up at 23:43:47 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/02/18 / 2018-02-15 15:43:47 / February 15, 2018 @ 3:43 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.53 km (12 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Domalanoan, Urbiztondo, Dorongan Punta. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from San Antonio (c. 34 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Agoo (c. 29 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Masinloc (c. 28 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Castillejos (c. 27 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Iba (c. 26 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 26 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Botolan (c. 23 000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 39 km W of Palauig, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.5322° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4399° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km W of Palauig, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-15 15:43:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-14 18:14:22 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 1.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us2000d70f Id of event.
Event Code 2000d70f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d70f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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