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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.5602S, 127.034WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 197 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines (122 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/12/19 / 2019-12-14 16:50:07 / December 14, 2019 @ 4:50 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.62 km (40 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006pj1. Id of event: us70006pj1. Exact location of event, longitude 127.034 East, latitude 4.5602 North, depth = 63.62 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:50:07 / 12:50 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 197 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines. This data 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 127.034° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.5602° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 197km ESE 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 2019-12-14 16:50:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-30 17:20:21 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 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 3.777 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us70006pj1 Id of event.
Event Code 70006pj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006pj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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