Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Zamboanguita in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Zamboanguita in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 22:21:58 / January 26, 2018 @ 10:21 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.39 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000cif5. Unique identifier: us1000cif5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 123.3007° East, latitude 9.053° North, depth = 70.39 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:21:58 / 6:21 am (local time epicenter).

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 Tagbilaran City, Mabinay, Mantalongon. Epicenter of the event was 28 km (18 miles) from Dumaguete (c. 113 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Dipolog (c. 93 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tagbilaran City (c. 86 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bais (c. 65 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Dapitan (c. 50 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Oroquieta (c. 39 300 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 one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km ESE of Zamboanguita, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.3007° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.053° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km ESE of Zamboanguita, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-26 22:21:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-09 01:07:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	285	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	7.634	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	116	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	us1000cif5	Id of event.
Event Code	1000cif5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000cif5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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