Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Lingig in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Lingig in Philippines on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.4408 East, latitude 8.0567 North, depth = 76.99 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 02:13:07 / September 16, 2015 @ 2:13 am. The temblor was reported at 10:13:07 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003irw. Event ids that are associated: us10003irw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 76.99 km (48 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tagum, Magatos, Cambanugoy. Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (60 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 3 km ENE of Lingig, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.4408° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.0567° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	76.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km ENE of Lingig, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-16 02:13:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-02 03:53:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	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	1.3	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	us10003irw	Id of event.
Event Code	10003irw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003irw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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