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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.4209S, 126.331WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 126.331 East, latitude 6.4209 North, depth = 54.69 km. Event id: us2000ivyn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ivyn. Global time and date of event 17/12/18 / 2018-12-17 20:39:57 / December 17, 2018 @ 8:39 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 04:39:57 / 4:39 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.69 km (34 miles).

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manay, San Ignacio, Malita (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km ENE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.331° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.4209° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km ENE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-17 20:39:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-10 17:01:58 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 0.986 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 us2000ivyn Id of event.
Event Code 2000ivyn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ivyn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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