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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Santa Cruz in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.1581S, 120.8418WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Santa Cruz in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000blld. Unique identifier: us7000blld. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.54 km (46 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 120.8418 East, latitude 13.1581 North, depth = 74.54 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/09/20 / 2020-09-11 04:52:32 / September 11, 2020 @ 4:52 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:52:32 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bulacnin, Magsaysay, Roxas. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Jose (c. 118 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Balayan (c. 50 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pinamalayan (c. 43 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Taal (c. 39 700 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 15 km NE of Santa Cruz, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.8418° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1581° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km NE of Santa Cruz, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-11 04:52:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-11 21:47:23 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 326 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 4.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 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 us7000blld Id of event.
Event Code 7000blld An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000blld, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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