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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Caburan in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.7093S, 126.1112WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Caburan in Philippines on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us60007hcc. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007hcc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 126.1112° East, latitude 5.7093° North, depth = 127.41 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:54:25 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 127.41 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 01:54:25 / January 14, 2020 @ 1:54 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Suyan (c. 7 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sapu Padidu, Malita, Malapatan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1112° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.7093° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km ESE of Caburan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-14 01:54:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-11 01:23:35 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 1.451 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us60007hcc Id of event.
Event Code 60007hcc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007hcc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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