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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sabtang in Philippines


Earthquake location 20.2627S, 121.329WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Sabtang in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 10:35:21 / July 18, 2018 @ 10:35 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.329 East, latitude 20.2627 North, depth = 23.57 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.57 km (15 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g7vm. Unique identifier: us2000g7vm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:35:21 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 57 km W of Sabtang, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.329° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.2627° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km W of Sabtang, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-18 10:35:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-18 13:08:38 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 2.553 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us2000g7vm Id of event.
Event Code 2000g7vm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g7vm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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