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


Earthquake location 9.2304S, 126.836WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Bacolod in Philippines. Unique identifier: us6000c2j5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c2j5. Exact location of event, longitude 126.836 East, latitude 9.2304 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/09/20 / 2020-09-23 00:09:37 / September 23, 2020 @ 12:09 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:09:37 / 12:09 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cantilan, Tandag, Tago. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 68 km ENE of Bacolod, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.836° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.2304° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km ENE of Bacolod, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-23 00:09:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-29 21:22:17 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 2.481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us6000c2j5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c2j5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c2j5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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