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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Tulunan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.8376S, 124.8947WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tulunan in Philippines. Event id: us700063gv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700063gv. Exact location of earthquake, 124.8947° East, 6.8376° North, depth 13.29 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/19 / 2019-10-27 16:05:50 / October 27, 2019 @ 4:05 pm. The temblor was picked up at 00:05:50 / 12:05 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.29 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alabel, Malita, Puloypuloy (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km E of Tulunan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.8947° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8376° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km E of Tulunan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-27 16:05:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-05 20:10:17 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 0.717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us700063gv Id of event.
Event Code 700063gv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700063gv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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