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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Osmeña in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 123.4205 East, latitude 12.733 North, depth = 39.42 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000c0lh. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c0lh. The temblor was reported at 03:50:37 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.42 km (24 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/09/20 / 2020-09-20 03:50:37 / September 20, 2020 @ 3:50 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pasacao, Antipolo, Tiwi (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tabaco (c. 57 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Masbate (c. 47 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.4205° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.733° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km E of Osmeña, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-20 03:50:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-24 20:14:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	5.581	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	us6000c0lh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c0lh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c0lh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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