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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.926S, 127.4581WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 212 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (132 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:47:03 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d2cx. Id of event: us7000d2cx. Exact location of event, depth 124.18 km, 127.4581° East, 4.926° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 124.18 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/21 / 2021-01-22 12:47:03 / January 22, 2021 @ 12:47 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 212 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.4581° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 212 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-22 12:47:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-22 13:11:04 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 2.833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us7000d2cx Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2cx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2cx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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