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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Lawa-an in Philippines


Earthquake location 11.1246S, 121.9477WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Lawa-an in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 22:12:44 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 121.9477° East, latitude 11.1246° North, depth = 33.48 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us700099ts. Unique identifier: us700099ts. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/05/20 / 2020-05-04 14:12:44 / May 4, 2020 @ 2:12 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.48 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Iloilo (c. 387 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kalibo (poblacion) (c. 56 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Passi (c. 42 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pandan (c. 34 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Oton (c. 14 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Janiuay (c. 12 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tigbauan (c. 12 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barotac Viejo, Lanot, Panitan.

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km WSW of Lawa-an, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.9477° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.1246° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WSW of Lawa-an, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-04 14:12:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-04 15:11:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 340 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 5.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us700099ts Id of event.
Event Code 700099ts An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700099ts, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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