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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Tingloy in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.5844S, 120.8587WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tingloy in Philippines on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/02/21 / 2021-02-11 13:35:02 / February 11, 2021 @ 1:35 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:35:02 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 147.56 km (92 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dgnn. Id of event: us6000dgnn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.8587 East, latitude 13.5844 North, depth = 147.56 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabcaben, Cavite City, Pagbilao. Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 216 700 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km S of Tingloy, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.8587° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5844° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km S of Tingloy, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-11 13:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-11 13:51:00 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 354 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 8.671 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us6000dgnn Id of event.
Event Code 6000dgnn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dgnn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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