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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Dagami in Philippines


Earthquake location 11.0815S, 124.8683WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Dagami in Philippines on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.12 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/03/20 / 2020-03-10 17:16:43 / March 10, 2020 @ 5:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.8683 East, latitude 11.0815 North, depth = 52.12 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60008f63. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008f63. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:16:43 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (18 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Bogo (c. 23 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daanbantayan, Bogo, Tapilon (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 4 km WNW of Dagami, 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 124.8683° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.0815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WNW of Dagami, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-10 17:16:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-01 13:56:27 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 4.047 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us60008f63 Id of event.
Event Code 60008f63 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008f63, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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