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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Bayabas in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.1771S, 126.6161WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Bayabas in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 18:11:33 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 111.9 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 111.9 km, 126.6161° East, 9.1771° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/08/15 / 2015-08-30 10:11:33 / August 30, 2015 @ 10:11 am. Unique identifier: us20003ish. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003ish. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Barobo (c. 9 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barobo, Dapa, Socorro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 42 km ENE of Bayabas, 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 126.6161° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1771° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km ENE of Bayabas, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-30 10:11:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-18 09:56:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 2.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us20003ish Id of event.
Event Code 20003ish An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003ish, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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