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


Earthquake location 13.9776S, 121.1941WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Talisay in Philippines on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 14:28:58 / January 12, 2020 @ 2:28 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:28:58 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.18 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us60007etm. Event ids that are associated: us60007etm. Exact location, longitude 121.1941° East, latitude 13.9776° North, depth = 3.18 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bocaue, Sulucan, San Jose del Monte (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km WNW of Talisay, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1941° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9776° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WNW of Talisay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 14:28:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 17:38:11 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 0.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us60007etm Id of event.
Event Code 60007etm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007etm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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