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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 61 km WSW of San Nicolas, Philippines


Earthquake location 14.825S, 119.5216WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 61 kilometers (38 miles) from San Nicolas in Philippines on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 119.5216° East, latitude 14.825° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/05/20 / 2020-05-06 12:01:55 / May 6, 2020 @ 12:01 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us70009fek. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fek. The temblor was reported at 12:01:55 / 12:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Olongapo (c. 221 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Subic (c. 67 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Antonio (c. 34 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Masinloc (c. 28 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Castillejos (c. 27 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Iba (c. 26 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Masinloc, Olongapo, Morong.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 61 km WSW of San Nicolas, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.5216° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.825° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km WSW of San Nicolas, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-06 12:01:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-30 09:55:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 8.685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us70009fek Id of event.
Event Code 70009fek An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009fek, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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