Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Caburan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Caburan in Philippines. Event id: us2000i5yw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i5yw. Global time and date of event 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 00:01:51 / October 28, 2018 @ 12:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 125.9763° East, latitude 5.5657° North, depth = 149.94 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:01:51 / 8:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 149.94 km (93 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lun Pequeño, Glan, Malapatan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 53 km SE of Caburan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.9763° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.5657° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	149.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km SE of Caburan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-28 00:01:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-02 23:03:56	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	1.545	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	142	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	us2000i5yw	Id of event.
Event Code	2000i5yw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000i5yw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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