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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.4595S, 127.2732WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 157 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (98 miles). Global time and date of event 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 04:38:37 / April 20, 2017 @ 4:38 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us10008j67. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008j67. Exact location of event, depth 130.77 km, 127.2732° East, 5.4595° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 130.77 km (81 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:38:37 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 157 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2732° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.4595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-20 04:38:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-20 05:08:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.322 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us10008j67 Id of event.
Event Code 10008j67 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008j67, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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