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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Davao in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Davao in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/02/17 / 2017-02-23 01:50:16 / February 23, 2017 @ 1:50 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20008lnh. Event ids that are associated: us20008lnh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.55 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 125.5854° East, 7.0606° North, depth 15.55 km. The temblor was reported at 09:50:16 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tamnag, Pagalungan, Kadingilan. The epicenter was 3 km (2 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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 WSW of Davao, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.5854° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.0606° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WSW of Davao, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-23 01:50:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-23 02:28:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	13	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.2	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	331	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	0.011	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us20008lnh	Id of event.
Event Code	20008lnh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008lnh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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