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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near General Luna in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.7954S, 126.2217WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. Exact location of event, depth 58.47 km, 126.2217° East, 9.7954° North. Unique identifier: us2000jhe1. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jhe1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 00:27:16 / January 30, 2019 @ 12:27 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:27:16 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.47 km (36 miles).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loreto, Tago, Mainit. Epicenter of the event was 80 km (49 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km E of General Luna, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2217° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7954° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km E of General Luna, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-30 00:27:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-14 23:01:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 2.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 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 us2000jhe1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jhe1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jhe1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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