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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near San Ignacio in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.9789S, 126.6847WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from San Ignacio in Philippines. Exact location of event, depth 175.31 km, 126.6847° East, 6.9789° North. The temblor was picked up at 17:19:06 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 175.31 km (109 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70008heq. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008heq. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/03/20 / 2020-03-23 09:19:06 / March 23, 2020 @ 9:19 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Magnaga, Taytayan, Kinablangan.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 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 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: 26 km SE of San Ignacio, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6847° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.9789° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 175.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SE of San Ignacio, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-23 09:19:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-30 09:15:06 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 1.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us70008heq Id of event.
Event Code 70008heq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008heq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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