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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 60 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.8177S, 126.269WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.269 East, latitude 5.8177 North, depth = 118.62 km. Unique identifier: us7000be8j. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000be8j. The temblor was detected at 04:24:08 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 22/08/20 / 2020-08-22 04:24:08 / August 22, 2020 @ 4:24 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 118.62 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tibanbang, Talagutong, Caburan.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km S of Pondaguitan, 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 126.269° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.8177° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60 km S 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 2020-08-22 04:24:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-28 22:33:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.42 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us7000be8j Id of event.
Event Code 7000be8j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000be8j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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