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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Namuac in Philippines


Earthquake location 19.0078S, 121.1544WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Namuac in Philippines on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude 121.1544° East, latitude 19.0078° North, depth = 35 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:26:59 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/04/20 / 2020-04-10 00:26:59 / April 10, 2020 @ 12:26 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008swu. Unique identifier: us70008swu.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cabaritan East (c. 9 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Pasuquin (c. 5 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ballesteros (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pasuquin, Aparri, Ballesteros. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: 43 km N of Namuac, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1544° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km N of Namuac, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-10 00:26:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-10 00:55:33 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 3.791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 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 us70008swu Id of event.
Event Code 70008swu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008swu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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