Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/20 / 2020-12-16 19:07:58 / December 16, 2020 @ 7:07 pm. Unique identifier: us7000cs7x. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cs7x. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.4 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:07:58 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 125.2072° East, latitude 5.0436° North, depth = 42.4 km.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Maasin (c. 5 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maasin, Glan, Baliton (min 5000 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 48 km SW of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.2072° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.0436° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48 km SW 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	2020-12-16 19:07:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-22 22:45:52	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	2.046	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	124	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	us7000cs7x	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cs7x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cs7x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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