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


Earthquake location 7.6981S, 127.0806WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Kinablangan in Philippines. Unique identifier: us1000jjsx. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jjsx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/03/19 / 2019-03-12 15:53:34 / March 12, 2019 @ 3:53 pm. Exact location, longitude 127.0806° East, latitude 7.6981° North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:53:34 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Ignacio, Lingig, Manay (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 58 km E of Kinablangan, 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 127.0806° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.6981° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km E of Kinablangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-12 15:53:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 17:22:32 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 1.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us1000jjsx Id of event.
Event Code 1000jjsx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jjsx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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