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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Victoria in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.1406S, 121.2786WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Victoria in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/19 / 2019-01-02 00:01:59 / January 2, 2019 @ 12:01 am. Event id: us2000j5t5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j5t5. The temblor was reported at 08:01:59 / 8:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.2786 East, latitude 13.1406 North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Jose (c. 118 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Candelaria (c. 60 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Sariaya (c. 45 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bulacnin, Lucena, Sariaya (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 4 km S of Victoria, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.2786° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1406° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km S of Victoria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-02 00:01:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-23 05:33:07 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 8.374 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us2000j5t5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j5t5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j5t5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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