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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Harrison in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.4394S, 120.3991WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Harrison in Philippines on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 23:32:45 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 120.3991 East, latitude 13.4394 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/24 / 2024-12-24 23:32:45 / December 24, 2024 @ 11:32 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pfic. Id of event: us6000pfic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maragondon, Lipa City, Victoria (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Nasugbu (c. 62 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Patuto (c. 52 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Balayan (c. 50 100 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Indang (c. 41 200 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WSW of Harrison, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.3991° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4394° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km WSW of Harrison, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-24 23:32:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-24 23:49:17 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 340 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 13.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us6000pfic Id of event.
Event Code 6000pfic An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pfic, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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