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


Earthquake location 4.766S, 127.982WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 266 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (165 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 101.4 km (63 miles). Global time and date of event 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 17:19:12 / April 29, 2019 @ 5:19 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70003igm. Event ids that are associated: us70003igm. Exact location of earthquake, 127.982° East, 4.766° North, depth 101.4 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:19:12 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. 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: 266 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.982° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 266km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-29 17:19:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-21 21:05:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 4.014 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us70003igm Id of event.
Event Code 70003igm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003igm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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