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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near San Andres in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2951S, 122.6455WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Andres in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:14:23 / 2:14 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000itmd. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000itmd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/18 / 2018-12-10 18:14:23 / December 10, 2018 @ 6:14 pm. Exact location, longitude 122.6455° East, latitude 13.2951° North, depth = 29.9 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.9 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Naga (c. 174 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Buhi (c. 30 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Catanauan (c. 26 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Calabanga (c. 26 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buhi, Ligao, Tinambac (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km SW of San Andres, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.6455° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2951° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW of San Andres, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-10 18:14:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-08 15:27:53 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 1.844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 us2000itmd Id of event.
Event Code 2000itmd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000itmd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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