Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Palimbang in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Palimbang in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70008gv9. Event ids that are associated: us70008gv9. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:57:59 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 123.9937° East, latitude 6.1129° North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 12/03/20 / 2020-03-12 03:57:59 / March 12, 2020 @ 3:57 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Isulan (c. 31 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Surallah (c. 31 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Laguilayan (c. 17 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Maganoy (c. 17 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maganoy, Lambo, Bañga (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km WSW of Palimbang, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.9937° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.1129° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km WSW of Palimbang, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-12 03:57:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-02 04:53:38	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	326	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	5.912	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us70008gv9	Id of event.
Event Code	70008gv9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008gv9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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