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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Bacolod in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.9442S, 126.2619WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Bacolod in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us200064ui. Event ids that are associated: us200064ui. The epicenter was at a depth of 90.45 km (56 miles). Global time and date of event 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 12:16:43 / June 11, 2016 @ 12:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.2619 East, latitude 8.9442 North, depth = 90.45 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:16:43 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bunawan, Claver, Tubay.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 3 km WNW of Bacolod, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2619° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.9442° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WNW of Bacolod, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-11 12:16:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-26 09:54:42 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 9.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us200064ui Id of event.
Event Code 200064ui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064ui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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