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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Sangay in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Sangay in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 35.94 km (22 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/17 / 2017-09-19 23:22:56 / September 19, 2017 @ 11:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000arcv. Event ids that are associated: us2000arcv. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:22:56 / 7:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 123.8962° East, latitude 6.3346° North, depth = 35.94 km.

Close 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 Bañga, Sampao, Awang. The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Isulan (c. 31 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Surallah (c. 31 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Laguilayan (c. 17 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Maganoy (c. 17 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km SW of Sangay, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.8962° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.3346° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km SW of Sangay, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-19 23:22:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-20 00:22:39	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	1.824	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us2000arcv	Id of event.
Event Code	2000arcv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000arcv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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