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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near General Luna in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.8475S, 126.5422WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/11/19 / 2019-11-12 01:07:00 / November 12, 2019 @ 1:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 126.5422° East, 9.8475° North, depth 35 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:07:00 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70006afm. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006afm.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Claver, Tandag, Cantilan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km E of General Luna, 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 126.5422° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.8475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km E of General Luna, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-12 01:07:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-09 02:29:42 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 2.919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us70006afm Id of event.
Event Code 70006afm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006afm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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