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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.0896S, 125.1577WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.3 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d6qi. Id of event: us6000d6qi. The temblor was picked up at 23:20:13 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/20 / 2020-12-29 23:20:13 / December 29, 2020 @ 11:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.1577 East, latitude 5.0896 North, depth = 44.3 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sapu Padidu, Maasin, Glan. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Maasin (c. 5 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 48 km SW of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1577° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.0896° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.3 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 2020-12-29 23:20:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-11 01:43:54 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 2.011 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 114 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 us6000d6qi Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6qi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d6qi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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