Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Harrison in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Harrison in Philippines on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude 120.334 East, latitude 13.5744 North, depth = 68.74 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 68.74 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:38:17 / 8:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/18 / 2018-10-06 00:38:17 / October 6, 2018 @ 12:38 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hazn. Unique identifier: us1000hazn.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Balete, Naic, Sablayan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Nasugbu (c. 62 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Naic (c. 55 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Patuto (c. 52 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Balayan (c. 50 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Indang (c. 41 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km NW of Harrison, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.334° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.5744° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	68.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km NW of Harrison, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-06 00:38:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-22 05:15:08	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	8.537	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us1000hazn	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hazn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hazn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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