Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Hukay in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Hukay in Philippines on Thursday. Exact location, longitude 120.7323° East, latitude 13.7621° North, depth = 195.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:56:36 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 195.37 km (121 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us60003rb3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60003rb3. Global time and date of event 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 06:56:36 / May 16, 2019 @ 6:56 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taguig, Binangonan, Jalajala (min 5000 pop). 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km SSE of Hukay, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.7323° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7621° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	195.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE of Hukay, 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 06:56:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-14 12:02:58	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	0.392	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us60003rb3	Id of event.
Event Code	60003rb3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60003rb3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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