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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Marihatag in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.6649S, 126.5696WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Marihatag in Philippines on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 90.833 km (56 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ngx4. Id of event: us6000ngx4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:37:55 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.5696° East, 8.6649° North, depth 90.833 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/24 / 2024-07-18 09:37:55 / July 18, 2024 @ 9:37 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Luis, Talacogon, Bayugan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km ESE of Marihatag, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5696° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.6649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90.833 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km ESE of Marihatag, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-18 09:37:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-14 12:48:09 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.864 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us6000ngx4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ngx4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ngx4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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