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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Tingloy in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.5995S, 120.9335WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tingloy in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 120.9335° East, 13.5995° North, depth 142.94 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us60008gyg. Unique identifier: us60008gyg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 142.94 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/03/20 / 2020-03-17 05:06:31 / March 17, 2020 @ 5:06 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:06:31 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 216 700 pop). Nearby 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 Lumbang, Bacoor, Cavinti.

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

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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. 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: 9 km SE of Tingloy, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9335° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE of Tingloy, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-17 05:06:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-17 05:38:21 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 8.706 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us60008gyg Id of event.
Event Code 60008gyg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008gyg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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