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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 29 km NNW of Santa Monica, Philippines


Earthquake location 10.2599S, 125.9209WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Santa Monica in Philippines on Monday. The temblor was reported at 13:51:16 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.9209 East, latitude 10.2599 North, depth = 63 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/12/19 / 2019-12-09 05:51:16 / December 9, 2019 @ 5:51 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us60006t7p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006t7p.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mainit, Guiuan, Claver (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 29 km NNW of Santa Monica, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9209° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km NNW of Santa Monica, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-09 05:51:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-03 13:32:43 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 3.187 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us60006t7p Id of event.
Event Code 60006t7p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006t7p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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