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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 8 km W of San Benito, Philippines


Earthquake location 9.9663S, 125.9262WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Benito in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 03:28:12 / July 24, 2015 @ 3:28 am. Exact location, longitude 125.9262° East, latitude 9.9663° North, depth = 81.84 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 81.84 km (51 miles). Id of earthquake: us100031up. Event ids that are associated: us100031up. The temblor was detected at 11:28:12 / 11:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cantilan, Kitcharao, Alegria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km W of San Benito, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9262° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.9663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km W of San Benito, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-24 03:28:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-14 22:40:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 271 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 2.898 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us100031up Id of event.
Event Code 100031up An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031up, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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