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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Bolila in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Bolila in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100049vi. Ids that are associated to the event: us100049vi. The epicenter was at a depth of 75.1 km (47 miles). Exact location of event, depth 75.1 km, 125.4656° East, 6.3404° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/15 / 2015-12-27 10:13:36 / December 27, 2015 @ 10:13 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:13:36 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Amas, Tacurong, Bialong (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km WSW of Bolila, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.4656° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.3404° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	75.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km WSW of Bolila, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-27 10:13:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-27 10:59:44	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	0.733	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	130	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	us100049vi	Id of event.
Event Code	100049vi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100049vi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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