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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Palimbang in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Palimbang in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.8535 East, latitude 6.1352 North, depth = 554.22 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 554.22 km (344 miles). Global time and date of event 18/10/17 / 2017-10-18 00:46:29 / October 18, 2017 @ 12:46 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:46:29 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000atkg. Event ids that are associated: us1000atkg.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 100 km (62 miles) from Isulan (c. 31 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Laguilayan (c. 17 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Norala (c. 12 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from South Upi (c. 12 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kiamba (c. 11 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kauran, Isulan, Santo Niño (min 5000 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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. 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: 38 km WSW of Palimbang, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.8535° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.1352° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	554.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km WSW of Palimbang, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-18 00:46:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-18 01:02:29	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	340	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	1.949	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us1000atkg	Id of event.
Event Code	1000atkg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000atkg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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