Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Carasi in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Carasi in Philippines on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/09/18 / 2018-09-05 02:25:56 / September 5, 2018 @ 2:25 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.35 km (23 miles). Event id: us2000hgi6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hgi6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 120.8284° East, 18.2882° North, depth 37.35 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:25:56 / 10:25 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 27 km (16 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vigan, Magapit, Aguiguican, Bantay. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.8284° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2882° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NNW of Carasi, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-05 02:25:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-25 01:20:07	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	4.512	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us2000hgi6	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hgi6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hgi6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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