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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Aurora in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0859S, 121.0424WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Aurora in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005wes. Unique identifier: us70005wes. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67.29 km (42 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/19 / 2019-10-20 18:39:29 / October 20, 2019 @ 6:39 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 121.0424° East, latitude 13.0859° North, depth = 67.29 km. The temblor was detected at 02:39:29 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bignay Uno, Calaca, Santa Catalina Sur. The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Jose (c. 118 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Pinamalayan (c. 43 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Taal (c. 39 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Banaybanay (c. 39 500 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 18 km SSW of Aurora, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0424° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0859° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSW of Aurora, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-20 18:39:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-20 19:24:02 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 340 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 8.249 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us70005wes Id of event.
Event Code 70005wes An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005wes, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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