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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 3 km NNE of Cuenca, Philippines


Earthquake location 13.9366S, 121.0616WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cuenca in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60007et5. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007et5. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 15:25:01 / January 12, 2020 @ 3:25 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:25:01 / 11:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.0616 East, latitude 13.9366 North, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pilar, Sulucan, Loma de Gato (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 3 km NNE of Cuenca, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0616° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9366° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NNE of Cuenca, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 15:25:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 21:10:48 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 9.408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us60007et5 Id of event.
Event Code 60007et5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007et5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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