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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Talisay in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.0571S, 121.007WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Talisay in Philippines on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.007 East, latitude 14.0571 North, depth = 86.2 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.2 km (54 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007etr. Unique identifier: us60007etr. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 20:55:53 / January 12, 2020 @ 8:55 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:55:53 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lubang, Angat, Orani (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km SSW of Talisay, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.007° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0571° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SSW 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 20:55:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-27 17:09:12 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 326 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 14.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us60007etr Id of event.
Event Code 60007etr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007etr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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