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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.0783S, 125.2565WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 37.9 km (24 miles). Exact location, longitude 125.2565° East, latitude 5.0783° North, depth = 37.9 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:33:25 / 9:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/17 / 2017-06-28 01:33:25 / June 28, 2017 @ 1:33 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100096vp. Id of event: us100096vp.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Maasin (c. 5 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sapu Padidu, Maasin, Glan (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 42 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.2565° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.0783° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-28 01:33:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-14 02:01:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 2.004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us100096vp Id of event.
Event Code 100096vp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096vp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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