Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Gamay in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Gamay 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 19/02/16 / 2016-02-19 17:20:32 / February 19, 2016 @ 5:20 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 125.4312° East, 12.4132° North, depth 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: us10004s22. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004s22. The temblor was picked up at 01:20:32 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Catbalogan, Pagsanghan, Borongan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Pambujan (c. 10 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Dolores (c. 9 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Gamay (c. 9 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 14 km ENE of Gamay, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.4312° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.4132° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km ENE of Gamay, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-19 17:20:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-16 20:37:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	19.59	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	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	us10004s22	Id of event.
Event Code	10004s22	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004s22,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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