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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Paracale in Philippines


Earthquake location 14.2586S, 122.8347WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Paracale in Philippines. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:23:50 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/21 / 2021-02-05 00:23:50 / February 5, 2021 @ 12:23 am. Exact location, longitude 122.8347° East, latitude 14.2586° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dgz4. Unique identifier: us6000dgz4.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Catanauan, Patnanungan, Alabat. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Naga (c. 174 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Daet (c. 78 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Catanauan (c. 26 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Calabanga (c. 26 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Lopez (c. 25 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Gumaca (c. 22 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 5 km ESE of Paracale, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.8347° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km ESE of Paracale, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-05 00:23:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-13 04:05:56 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 7.635 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 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 us6000dgz4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dgz4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dgz4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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