Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 58 km WSW of Bolitoc, Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Bolitoc in Philippines on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 12:31:11 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007ld7. Id of event: us60007ld7. Exact location of event, longitude 119.3558 East, latitude 15.5968 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 04:31:11 / January 20, 2020 @ 4:31 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Narciso, Bugallon, Aguilar (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 96 km (60 miles) from Agoo (c. 29 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Masinloc (c. 28 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Iba (c. 26 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 26 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Botolan (c. 23 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from San Narciso (c. 15 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Poblacion, San Felipe (c. 15 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 58 km WSW of Bolitoc, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.3558° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.5968° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km WSW of Bolitoc, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-20 04:31:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-05 00:42:30	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	354	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	8.788	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us60007ld7	Id of event.
Event Code	60007ld7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007ld7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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