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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Liliongan in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.4162S, 124.7703WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Liliongan in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/11/19 / 2019-11-18 13:56:03 / November 18, 2019 @ 1:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:56:03 / 9:56 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70006d8l. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006d8l. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.67 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.7703 East, latitude 7.4162 North, depth = 9.67 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coronon, Tuban, New Visayas (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Marawi City (c. 143 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Valencia (c. 83 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Malaybalay (c. 61 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-seven 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 6 km NNW of Liliongan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.7703° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.4162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW of Liliongan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-18 13:56:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-26 19:39:33 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 0.873 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 92 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 us70006d8l Id of event.
Event Code 70006d8l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006d8l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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