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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Bulatukan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.8388S, 125.1122WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Bulatukan in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us600068q3. Unique identifier: us600068q3. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:30:31 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.53 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 30/10/19 / 2019-10-30 21:30:31 / October 30, 2019 @ 9:30 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.1122 East, latitude 6.8388 North, depth = 5.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabayangan, La Libertad, Suyan.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 sixteen, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km SW of Bulatukan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1122° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8388° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SW of Bulatukan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-30 21:30:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-08 05:25:02 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 0.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us600068q3 Id of event.
Event Code 600068q3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600068q3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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