Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near San Remigio in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Remigio in Philippines. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:51:52 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/09/16 / 2016-09-23 23:51:52 / September 23, 2016 @ 11:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.8035° East, 6.9228° North, depth 117.38 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006uqg. Id of event: us10006uqg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 117.38 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Malandag, Maluñgun, Amas.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km E of San Remigio, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.8035° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.9228° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	117.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km E of San Remigio, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-23 23:51:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-22 03:23:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	285	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	0.266	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	us10006uqg	Id of event.
Event Code	10006uqg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006uqg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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