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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 1 km SW of Talaga, Philippines


Earthquake location 13.7277S, 120.9237WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Talaga in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/19 / 2019-04-22 15:38:40 / April 22, 2019 @ 3:38 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 142.31 km (88 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 142.31 km, 120.9237° East, 13.7277° North. Id of earthquake: us70003flm. Event ids that are associated: us70003flm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:38:40 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paete, Angono, Makati City (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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: 1 km SW of Talaga, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9237° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7277° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SW of Talaga, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-22 15:38:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-05 15:26:59 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 14.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us70003flm Id of event.
Event Code 70003flm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003flm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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