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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Talisay in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.7197S, 126.1988WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Talisay in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 19:47:21 / 7:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/09/19 / 2019-09-19 11:47:21 / September 19, 2019 @ 11:47 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.1988 East, latitude 6.7197 North, depth = 81.08 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 81.08 km (50 miles). Id of earthquake: us60005kxp. Event ids that are associated: us60005kxp.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hagonoy, Wañgan, Sulop (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km E of Talisay, 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 126.1988° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E of Talisay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-19 11:47:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 11:39:48 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 0.706 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us60005kxp Id of event.
Event Code 60005kxp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005kxp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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