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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 54 km NNE of Basco, Philippines


Earthquake location 20.9077S, 122.1485WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Basco in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/12/20 / 2020-12-19 13:42:36 / December 19, 2020 @ 1:42 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 179.51 km (112 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000csfl. Unique identifier: us7000csfl. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:42:36 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.1485 East, latitude 20.9077 North, depth = 179.51 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 54 km NNE of Basco, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.1485° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.9077° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 179.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km NNE of Basco, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-19 13:42:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-19 15:52:33 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 284 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 2.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us7000csfl Id of event.
Event Code 7000csfl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000csfl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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