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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Victoria in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.0718S, 121.2552WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Victoria in Philippines on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 103.62 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 17:39:27 / 5:39 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000dd4c. Event ids that are associated: us2000dd4c. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/18 / 2018-02-26 09:39:27 / February 26, 2018 @ 9:39 am. Exact location of event, depth 103.62 km, 121.2552° East, 13.0718° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria, Concepcion Ibaba, Lipa City (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Jose (c. 118 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Candelaria (c. 60 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Pinamalayan (c. 43 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Taal (c. 39 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSW of Victoria, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.2552° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0718° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW of Victoria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-26 09:39:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-15 12:29:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1.07 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us2000dd4c Id of event.
Event Code 2000dd4c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dd4c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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