Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Surigao in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Surigao in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us20008lhq. Event ids that are associated: us20008lhq. Exact location of event, depth 36.73 km, 125.5279° East, 9.8456° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 12/02/17 / 2017-02-12 03:01:33 / February 12, 2017 @ 3:01 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.73 km (23 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:01:33 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buenavista, Bato, Magallanes. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 7 km (5 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Buenavista (c. 18 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Bato (c. 10 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 8 km NNE of Surigao, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.5279° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.8456° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.73 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NNE of Surigao, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-12 03:01:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-01 00:55:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	2.758	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us20008lhq	Id of event.
Event Code	20008lhq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008lhq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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