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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near San Isidro in Philippines


Earthquake location 10.295S, 126.5999WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from San Isidro in Philippines on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 19:45:13 / April 12, 2019 @ 7:45 pm. 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 65.91 km (41 miles). Event id: us700038kw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700038kw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5999 East, latitude 10.295 North, depth = 65.91 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:45:13 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dapa. The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 65 km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5999° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.295° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-12 19:45:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-11 20:51:00 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 3.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us700038kw Id of event.
Event Code 700038kw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700038kw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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