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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Carlagan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Carlagan in Philippines on Friday. Unique identifier: us70005fsh. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005fsh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 24.19 km, 122.1546° East, 14.9398° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/19 / 2019-09-13 09:18:21 / September 13, 2019 @ 9:18 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 24.19 km (15 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:18:21 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mabitac, Paete, Sampaloc (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Mauban (c. 32 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Paete (c. 26 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Jose Pañganiban (c. 21 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Sampaloc (c. 20 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Pangil (c. 19 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 14 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mabitac (c. 12 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 12 km ESE of Carlagan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.1546° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.9398° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km ESE of Carlagan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-13 09:18:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-13 09:42:20	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	340	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	7.901	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us70005fsh	Id of event.
Event Code	70005fsh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005fsh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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