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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hukay in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 15, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.8105S, 120.7146WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Hukay in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 22:48:55 / January 15, 2021 @ 10:48 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 120.7146 East, latitude 13.8105 North, depth = 159.36 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:48:55 / 10:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 159.36 km (99 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d0ib. Unique identifier: us7000d0ib.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Balanga, Del Monte, Tanay. Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 4 km SSE of Hukay, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.7146° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 159.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km SSE of Hukay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-15 22:48:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-15 23:25:47 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 326 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 8.965 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us7000d0ib Id of event.
Event Code 7000d0ib An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d0ib, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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