Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Pilar in Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Pilar in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.37 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 126.4195 East, latitude 10.0163 North, depth = 9.37 km. The temblor was detected at 13:01:15 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nu8w. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nu8w. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/24 / 2024-11-26 13:01:15 / November 26, 2024 @ 1:01 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cantilan, Claver, Socorro (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 38 km ENE of Pilar, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.4195° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.0163° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km ENE of Pilar, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-26 13:01:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-26 15:50:59	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.043	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us7000nu8w	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nu8w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nu8w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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