Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 12 km SSW of San Rafael, Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Rafael in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 123.6404° East, 12.7842° North, depth 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000myzc. Unique identifier: us6000myzc. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:07:02 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/05/24 / 2024-05-09 19:07:02 / May 9, 2024 @ 7:07 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Legaspi (c. 179 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Iriga City (c. 94 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Polangui (c. 77 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Libon (c. 68 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tabaco (c. 57 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nato, Alegria, Bula.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 12 km SSW of San Rafael, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.6404° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.7842° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SSW of San Rafael, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-09 19:07:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-17 18:08:59	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.991	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us6000myzc	Id of event.
Event Code	6000myzc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000myzc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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