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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 62 km N of Namuac, Philippines


Earthquake location 19.1732S, 121.1895WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Namuac in Philippines. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:27:08 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/06/20 / 2020-06-19 07:27:08 / June 19, 2020 @ 7:27 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000abbn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000abbn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 121.1895° East, latitude 19.1732° North, depth = 24.43 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.43 km (15 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ballesteros, Cabaritan East, Claveria. Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cabaritan East (c. 9 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ballesteros (c. 5 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 62 km N of Namuac, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1895° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62 km 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 2020-06-19 07:27:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-08 07:33:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 3.627 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us7000abbn Id of event.
Event Code 7000abbn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000abbn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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