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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 22 km E of Barcelona, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.1941S, 126.6367WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 12:34:09 / 12:34 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100073q1. Unique identifier: us100073q1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 69.88 km (43 miles). Global time and date of event 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 04:34:09 / October 28, 2016 @ 4:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.6367 East, latitude 8.1941 North, depth = 69.88 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bah-Bah, Montevista, Cabinuangan. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km E of Barcelona, Philippines. This information 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 126.6367° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.1941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km E 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 2016-10-28 04:34:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-26 01:09:21 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 1.532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us100073q1 Id of event.
Event Code 100073q1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100073q1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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