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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Adams in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Adams in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 120.8819° East, 18.3666° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hhya. Unique identifier: us1000hhya. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/18 / 2018-10-27 10:39:04 / October 27, 2018 @ 10:39 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:39:04 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piat, Magapit, Aguiguican, Magapit (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 11 km S of Adams, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.8819° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3666° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km S of Adams, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-27 10:39:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-27 11:09:04	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	4.914	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	106	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	us1000hhya	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hhya	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hhya,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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