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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near La Paz in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.1302S, 126.5037WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from La Paz in Philippines. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:08:08 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.5037° East, latitude 9.1302° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000c3e1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c3e1. Global time and date of event 30/09/20 / 2020-09-30 21:08:08 / September 30, 2020 @ 9:08 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taligaman, Bayugan, San Francisco (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km ENE of La Paz, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5037° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1302° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km ENE of La Paz, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-30 21:08:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-30 21:53:56 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 2.242 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 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 us6000c3e1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c3e1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c3e1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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