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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Kiblawan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Kiblawan in Philippines. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 125.2525° East, 6.6221° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/19 / 2019-10-20 12:20:40 / October 20, 2019 @ 12:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:20:40 / 8:20 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70005wbm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005wbm.

Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dado, Pandasan, Kiamba. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km ENE of Kiblawan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.2525° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.6221° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km ENE of Kiblawan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-20 12:20:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-20 12:37:21	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	0.55	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us70005wbm	Id of event.
Event Code	70005wbm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005wbm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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