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


Earthquake location 17.9647S, 120.9448WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Padong in Philippines on Friday. Id of earthquake: us1000h71u. Event ids that are associated: us1000h71u. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 00:03:12 / September 28, 2018 @ 12:03 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 58.29 km (36 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:03:12 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 120.9448° East, latitude 17.9647° North, depth = 58.29 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Tuguegarao City (c. 115 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Solana (c. 71 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tuguegarao City, Enrile, Liwan. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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 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: 22 km ESE of Padong, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9647° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km ESE of Padong, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-28 00:03:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-14 04:30:25 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 4.83 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us1000h71u Id of event.
Event Code 1000h71u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h71u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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