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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Talaga in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.743S, 120.9268WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Talaga in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.9268 East, latitude 13.743 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:25:43 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/10/20 / 2020-10-29 05:25:43 / October 29, 2020 @ 5:25 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000c7dk. Event ids that are associated: us7000c7dk.

Epicenter of the event was 96 km (60 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Del Monte, Sampaloc, Mauban. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 four and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NW of Talaga, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9268° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km NW of Talaga, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-29 05:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-29 06:03:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 357 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 8.947 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us7000c7dk Id of event.
Event Code 7000c7dk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c7dk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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