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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.907S, 125.3498WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 09:07:15 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70003lxx. Event ids that are associated: us70003lxx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.3498 East, latitude 4.907 North, depth = 179.54 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 01:07:15 / May 16, 2019 @ 1:07 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 179.54 km (112 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pangyan, Sarangani (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km SSW of Sarangani, 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 125.3498° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.907° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 179.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-16 01:07:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 01:28:55 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 2.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us70003lxx Id of event.
Event Code 70003lxx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003lxx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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