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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 21:58:20 / 9:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10005hyl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005hyl. The epicenter was at a depth of 139.1 km (86 miles). Global time and date of event 17/05/16 / 2016-05-17 13:58:20 / May 17, 2016 @ 1:58 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 139.1 km, 126.1352° East, 6.0473° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maluñgun, Sapu Padidu, Lupon. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 16 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-seven 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 35 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.1352° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.0473° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	139.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km S 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	2016-05-17 13:58:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-17 14:16:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	341	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	1.156	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us10005hyl	Id of event.
Event Code	10005hyl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005hyl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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