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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Claveria in Philippines


Earthquake location 19.3777S, 121.0897WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Claveria in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 121.0897° East, 19.3777° North, depth 36.06 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.06 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600068j0. Id of event: us600068j0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/11/19 / 2019-11-07 04:18:23 / November 7, 2019 @ 4:18 am UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:18:23 / 12:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Claveria (min 5000 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-two 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.

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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: 85 km N of Claveria, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0897° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km N of Claveria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-07 04:18:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-07 04:41:23 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 354 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 3.422 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 267 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 us600068j0 Id of event.
Event Code 600068j0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600068j0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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