Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Quirino in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Quirino in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.6774 East, latitude 17.1381 North, depth = 92.28 km. Event id: us2000jd4c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jd4c. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/19 / 2019-02-04 12:55:39 / February 4, 2019 @ 12:55 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.28 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:55:39 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Muñoz East, Ramon, Sinamar (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Baguio (c. 272 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bayombong (c. 48 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from La Trinidad (c. 41 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ramon (c. 36 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Solano (c. 36 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SSE of Quirino, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.6774° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.1381° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	92.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km SSE of Quirino, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-02-04 12:55:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-26 12:57:53	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	340	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	3.028	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	us2000jd4c	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jd4c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jd4c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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