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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Tabiauan in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.5555S, 122.5671WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 179 km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines (111 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 625.05 km (388 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000j08j. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j08j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:12:09 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 122.5671 East, latitude 4.5555 North, depth = 625.05 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/12/18 / 2018-12-18 17:12:09 / December 18, 2018 @ 5:12 pm.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 179 km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.5671° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.5555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 625.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 179km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-18 17:12:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-10 22:29:46 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 259 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 3.858 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us2000j08j Id of event.
Event Code 2000j08j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j08j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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