Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Busilak in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Busilak in Philippines on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 121.0433 East, latitude 16.448 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:16:10 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005bt0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005bt0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 20:16:10 / March 19, 2016 @ 8:16 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guimba, Minante Segundo, Nagsaing (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Baguio (c. 272 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Santiago (c. 108 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Urdaneta (c. 101 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Manaoag (c. 59 100 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km WSW of Busilak, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.0433° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.448° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km WSW of Busilak, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-19 20:16:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-08 21:53:44	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	6.336	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us20005bt0	Id of event.
Event Code	20005bt0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005bt0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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