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


Earthquake location 6.0125S, 123.8165WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Palimbang in Philippines on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dwik. Unique identifier: us1000dwik. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/05/18 / 2018-05-03 08:20:07 / May 3, 2018 @ 8:20 am. Exact location of event, longitude 123.8165 East, latitude 6.0125 North, depth = 541.37 km. The temblor was detected at 16:20:07 / 4:20 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 541.37 km (336 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kiamba, Puloypuloy, Maitum. The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Kiamba (c. 11 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Maitum (c. 8 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bantogon (c. 5 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Puloypuloy (c. 5 100 pop).

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 fourteen 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.

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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 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: 46 km WSW of Palimbang, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.8165° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 541.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km WSW of Palimbang, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-03 08:20:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-03 08:37:20 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 5.733 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 97 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 us1000dwik Id of event.
Event Code 1000dwik An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dwik, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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