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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Cortes in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.5362S, 126.5871WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Cortes in Philippines on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.23 km (23 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:58:16 / 10:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/12/19 / 2019-12-18 02:58:16 / December 18, 2019 @ 2:58 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006u8l. Id of event: us70006u8l. Exact location, longitude 126.5871° East, latitude 9.5362° North, depth = 36.23 km.

Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Claver, Aras-asan, Cantilan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight 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: 51 km ENE of Cortes, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5871° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.5362° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km ENE of Cortes, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-18 02:58:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-04 01:06:14 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 2.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us70006u8l Id of event.
Event Code 70006u8l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006u8l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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