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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Soledad in Philippines


Earthquake location 15.4586S, 120.9883WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Soledad in Philippines. Global time and date of event 19/10/20 / 2020-10-19 17:16:09 / October 19, 2020 @ 5:16 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 156.59 km (97 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cc28. Unique identifier: us6000cc28. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:16:09 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 120.9883° East, 15.4586° North, depth 156.59 km.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from San Jose del Monte (c. 357 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Angeles City (c. 299 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Santol (c. 299 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Fernando (c. 251 200 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Cabanatuan City (c. 220 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Malolos (c. 198 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jacinto, Bagong Pagasa, Tamayo.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km N of Soledad, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9883° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.4586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 156.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km N of Soledad, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-19 17:16:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-23 15:07:05 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 246 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 2.143 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 148 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 us6000cc28 Id of event.
Event Code 6000cc28 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cc28, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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