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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near San Fernando in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.6198S, 120.3353WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from San Fernando in Philippines. Global time and date of event 13/12/20 / 2020-12-13 06:53:32 / December 13, 2020 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.72 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 06:53:32 / 6:53 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000cqqr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cqqr. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.3353 East, latitude 16.6198 North, depth = 81.72 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 Quezon, Cuyapo, Barlig. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Baguio (c. 272 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Urdaneta (c. 101 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Manaoag (c. 59 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Lingayen (c. 56 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bayombong (c. 48 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 2 km ENE of San Fernando, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.3353° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6198° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km ENE of San Fernando, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-13 06:53:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-13 11:00:42 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 354 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 0.934 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 77 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 us7000cqqr Id of event.
Event Code 7000cqqr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cqqr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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