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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Itbayat in Philippines


Earthquake location 20.7621S, 121.9684WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines on Saturday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:15:57 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/19 / 2019-07-27 00:15:57 / July 27, 2019 @ 12:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.9684 East, latitude 20.7621 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004znl. Id of event: us60004znl.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-four 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 13 km ESE of Itbayat, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.9684° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.7621° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ESE of Itbayat, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-27 00:15:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-03 02:39:46 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 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 2.206 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 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 us60004znl Id of event.
Event Code 60004znl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004znl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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