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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Puro Pingit in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Puro Pingit in Philippines. Unique identifier: us2000jmib. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jmib. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:27:54 / 3:27 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 49.04 km (30 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/19 / 2019-02-24 19:27:54 / February 24, 2019 @ 7:27 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 120.3382° East, 17.7867° North, depth 49.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tagudin (c. 35 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 28 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Candon (c. 11 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pasil, Tagudin, Santa Maria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km N of Puro Pingit, 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	120.3382° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7867° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km N of Puro Pingit, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-02-24 19:27:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-24 21:36:35	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	5.053	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us2000jmib	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jmib	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jmib,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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