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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Itbayat in Philippines


Earthquake location 20.9516S, 120.9856WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 90 km WNW of Itbayat, Philippines (56 miles). Id of earthquake: us60004xfv. Event ids that are associated: us60004xfv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/19 / 2019-07-22 04:44:22 / July 22, 2019 @ 4:44 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:44:22 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.9856 East, latitude 20.9516 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 90 km WNW of Itbayat, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9856° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.9516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km WNW of Itbayat, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-22 04:44:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-30 22:03:34 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 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 1.859 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us60004xfv Id of event.
Event Code 60004xfv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004xfv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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