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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Arteche in Philippines


Earthquake location 12.4044S, 125.5046WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Arteche in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/11/19 / 2019-11-06 23:05:07 / November 6, 2019 @ 11:05 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:05:07 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.5046 East, latitude 12.4044 North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: us60006bin. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006bin.

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 Catarman, Borongan, Mondragon. Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Pambujan (c. 10 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Dolores (c. 9 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Gamay (c. 9 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Oras (c. 9 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 nineteen 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km NE of Arteche, Philippines. This information 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 125.5046° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.4044° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NE of Arteche, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-06 23:05:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-16 04:13:34 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 16.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us60006bin Id of event.
Event Code 60006bin An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006bin, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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