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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 45 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.9481S, 126.1823WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69.54 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 126.1823 East, latitude 5.9481 North, depth = 69.54 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us700048qi. Unique identifier: us700048qi. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/06/19 / 2019-06-23 11:58:41 / June 23, 2019 @ 11:58 am. The temblor was detected at 19:58:41 / 7:58 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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Suyan, La Union, Malita. Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Suyan (c. 7 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from La Union (c. 5 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-six 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1823° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.9481° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km S 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 2019-06-23 11:58:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 11:51:31 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 1.265 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us700048qi Id of event.
Event Code 700048qi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700048qi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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