Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Jomalig in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Jomalig in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 05:12:24 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 122.8454° East, 14.9467° North. Id of earthquake: us70008ymc. Event ids that are associated: us70008ymc. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 21:12:24 / April 12, 2020 @ 9:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Jose Pañganiban (c. 21 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Labo (c. 18 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Vinzons (c. 13 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Paracale (c. 8 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Talisay (c. 7 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Patnanungan (c. 6 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Talisay, Labo, Vinzons (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 57 km ENE of Jomalig, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.8454° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.9467° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km ENE of Jomalig, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-12 21:12:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-20 22:00:53	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	2.03	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107	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	us70008ymc	Id of event.
Event Code	70008ymc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008ymc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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