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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Barcelona in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 09:08:08 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/18 / 2018-09-26 01:08:08 / September 26, 2018 @ 1:08 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.9195 East, latitude 8.2408 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000hk1y. Event ids that are associated: us2000hk1y.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Libertad, Aras-asan, Trento. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Barobo (c. 9 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 54 km E of Barcelona, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.9195° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.2408° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54km E of Barcelona, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-26 01:08:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-26 02:12:22	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	1.766	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us2000hk1y	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hk1y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hk1y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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