Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Pondaguitan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 83.15 km (52 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008mn1. Unique identifier: us70008mn1. The temblor was picked up at 11:41:45 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.0245 East, latitude 6.0874 North, depth = 83.15 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/03/20 / 2020-03-30 03:41:45 / March 30, 2020 @ 3:41 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangyan, Lupon, Malandag (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 16 800 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 34 km SSW of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.0245° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.0874° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km SSW of Pondaguitan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-30 03:41:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-06 01:47:22	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	1.071	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 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	us70008mn1	Id of event.
Event Code	70008mn1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008mn1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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