Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near General Luna in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 23:01:52 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.2347° East, latitude 9.863° North, depth = 39.63 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008li7. Unique identifier: us20008li7. The epicenter was at a depth of 39.63 km (25 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/02/17 / 2017-02-12 15:01:52 / February 12, 2017 @ 3:01 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tago, Loreto, Tandag. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days sixty-one 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NE of General Luna, 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	126.2347° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.863° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km NE of General Luna, 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 15:01:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-06 20:02:57	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	2.85	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us20008li7	Id of event.
Event Code	20008li7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008li7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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