Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Cateel in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Cateel in Philippines on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude 126.5972° East, latitude 7.8891° North, depth = 106.01 km. The temblor was reported at 08:41:15 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hjsq. Id of event: us2000hjsq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 106.01 km (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 00:41:15 / September 18, 2018 @ 12:41 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Andop, New Corella, Barobo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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: 19 km NE of Cateel, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.5972° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.8891° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	106.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km NE of Cateel, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-18 00:41:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-07 05:35:21	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	1.296	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us2000hjsq	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hjsq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hjsq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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