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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 1 km W of Cabay, Philippines


Earthquake location 11.4468S, 125.4768WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Cabay in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 125.4768° East, 11.4468° North, depth 127.16 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 127.16 km (79 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/18 / 2018-01-12 18:19:32 / January 12, 2018 @ 6:19 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:19:32 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000cpsf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cpsf.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abuyog, Capoocan, Arteche (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km W of Cabay, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.4768° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.4468° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km W of Cabay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-12 18:19:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-09 21:49:17 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 12.662 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us2000cpsf Id of event.
Event Code 2000cpsf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cpsf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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