Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Paluan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Paluan in Philippines on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us60007k5a. Event ids that are associated: us60007k5a. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:16:38 / 10:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 02:16:38 / January 18, 2020 @ 2:16 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.4441 East, latitude 13.3423 North, depth = 35 km.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Laurel, Aga, Victoria (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Nasugbu (c. 62 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Balayan (c. 50 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Taal (c. 39 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from San Pascual (c. 39 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Sablayan (c. 38 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 8 km SSW of Paluan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.4441° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.3423° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SSW of Paluan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-18 02:16:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-30 22:58:19	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	0.894	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	159	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	us60007k5a	Id of event.
Event Code	60007k5a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007k5a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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