Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Hukay in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Hukay in Philippines on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 143.13 km (89 miles). Exact location of event, depth 143.13 km, 120.7622° East, 13.7496° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/16 / 2016-01-08 21:27:13 / January 8, 2016 @ 9:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 05:27:13 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004egh. Id of event: us10004egh.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taguig, Maulawin, Binangonan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 12 km SSE of Hukay, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.7622° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7496° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	143.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SSE of Hukay, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-08 21:27:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-06 06:25:54	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	284	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	8.805	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	128	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	us10004egh	Id of event.
Event Code	10004egh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004egh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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