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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Pandan Niog in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Pandan Niog in Philippines. Exact location of event, depth 53.19 km, 120.3284° East, 6.2478° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:19:19 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000hf8k. Event ids that are associated: us2000hf8k. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.19 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 19:19:19 / September 15, 2018 @ 7:19 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Siasi, Talipaw, Lugus. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Jolo (c. 101 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Siasi (c. 12 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Anuling (c. 10 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Parang (c. 9 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Lugus (c. 7 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kulase (c. 7 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Talipaw (c. 6 000 pop).

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. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.3284° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.2478° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km W of Pandan Niog, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-15 19:19:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-15 20:08:03	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	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	5.122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us2000hf8k	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hf8k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hf8k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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