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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Salcedo in Philippines


Earthquake location 11.2222S, 125.8448WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Salcedo in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:30:23 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/11/15 / 2015-11-30 03:30:23 / November 30, 2015 @ 3:30 am. Exact location of earthquake, 125.8448° East, 11.2222° North, depth 90.31 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 90.31 km (56 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000432i. Id of event: us1000432i.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Llorente (c. 7 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Basey (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Panalanoy, Tanauan, Basey (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 21 km ENE of Salcedo, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.8448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.2222° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ENE of Salcedo, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-30 03:30:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-11 05:18:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us1000432i Id of event.
Event Code 1000432i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000432i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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