Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Ilioilio in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Ilioilio in Philippines on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 19:06:02 / 7:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 119.235 East, latitude 15.7804 North, depth = 10 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 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007j4v. Id of event: us70007j4v. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 11:06:02 / January 25, 2020 @ 11:06 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iba, Amuñgan, Alaminos. Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Masinloc (c. 28 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Iba (c. 26 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 26 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Amuñgan (c. 12 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Alaminos (c. 10 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Lucapon (c. 5 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Taltal (c. 5 400 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km WSW of Ilioilio, 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	119.235° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.7804° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km WSW of Ilioilio, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-25 11:06:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-16 12:47:42	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	7.213	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us70007j4v	Id of event.
Event Code	70007j4v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007j4v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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