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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Gumian in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.7197S, 121.5573WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Gumian in Philippines on Monday. Global time and date of event 21/12/20 / 2020-12-21 18:14:47 / December 21, 2020 @ 6:14 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 121.5573° East, latitude 14.7197° North, depth = 36.17 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:14:47 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000d1q5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000d1q5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.17 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Rosa, Ternate, Papaya (min 5000 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 sixty 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: 6 km W of Gumian, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5573° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km W of Gumian, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-21 18:14:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-21 18:40:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 380 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 8.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us6000d1q5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000d1q5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d1q5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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