Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 03:10:36 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c72v. Unique identifier: us6000c72v. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 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). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/20 / 2020-10-06 03:10:36 / October 6, 2020 @ 3:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 125.5981 East, latitude 5.5166 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Buayan (c. 14 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Conel, Katangawan, Talagutong (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km NE of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.5981° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.5166° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km NE of Sarangani, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-06 03:10:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-23 03:03:33	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	246	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	1.543	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	us6000c72v	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c72v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c72v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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