Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Barcelona in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/24 / 2024-08-11 00:52:33 / August 11, 2024 @ 12:52 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000nphe. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nphe. The temblor was picked up at 00:52:33 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.493 km (28 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 127.0254 East, latitude 8.3067 North, depth = 45.493 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kinablangan, Taytayan, Cateel. Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kinablangan (c. 5 400 pop). Close 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days one hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 67 km ENE of Barcelona, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.0254° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.3067° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.493 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67 km ENE 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	2024-08-11 00:52:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-05 03:06:10	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.888	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	174	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	us6000nphe	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nphe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nphe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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