Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 16 km E of Lalauigan, Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Lalauigan in Philippines. Global time and date of event 18/05/19 / 2019-05-18 04:39:01 / May 18, 2019 @ 4:39 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:39:01 / 12:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.6176° East, latitude 11.6016° North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us60003rr5. Event ids that are associated: us60003rr5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dulag, Alangalang, Gamay. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Dulag (c. 10 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km E of Lalauigan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.6176° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.6016° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km E of Lalauigan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-18 04:39:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-25 02:47:34	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	326	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	4.503	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	128	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	us60003rr5	Id of event.
Event Code	60003rr5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60003rr5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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