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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Calanasan in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.3822S, 121.0447WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Calanasan in Philippines. Unique identifier: us1000jhm0. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jhm0. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:54:30 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). 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 43.83 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/03/19 / 2019-03-17 20:54:30 / March 17, 2019 @ 8:54 pm. Exact location, longitude 121.0447° East, latitude 18.3822° North, depth = 43.83 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabugao, Piat, Magapit, Aguiguican (min 5000 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 four and in the last 365 days twenty-three 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km N of Calanasan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0447° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3822° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km N of Calanasan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-17 20:54:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-17 21:11:11 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 4.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000jhm0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jhm0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jhm0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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