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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 50 km E of Barcelona, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.1864S, 126.8916WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:02:09 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.8916 East, latitude 8.1864 North, depth = 43.098 km. Unique identifier: us6000n0hu. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000n0hu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43.098 km (27 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/05/24 / 2024-05-17 10:02:09 / May 17, 2024 @ 10:02 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barobo, Trento, Salvacion. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Barobo (c. 9 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 ten, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 50 km E of Barcelona, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8916° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.1864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.098 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km E of Barcelona, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-17 10:02:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-09 05:34:49 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.71 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us6000n0hu Id of event.
Event Code 6000n0hu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n0hu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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