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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Tingloy in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.6688S, 120.9248WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tingloy in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 01:21:28 / May 12, 2020 @ 1:21 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.9248 East, latitude 13.6688 North, depth = 206.32 km. The temblor was detected at 09:21:28 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 206.32 km (128 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009kub. Id of event: us70009kub. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cavite City, Lumbang, Cavinti. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km E of Tingloy, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9248° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 206.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km E 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 2020-05-12 01:21:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 01:31:40 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 259 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 0.431 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us70009kub Id of event.
Event Code 70009kub An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009kub, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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