Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Calanasan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Calanasan in Philippines on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 121.0739° East, 18.3405° North, depth 42.9 km. Unique identifier: us20005dvv. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005dvv. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:25:18 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.9 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/16 / 2016-03-27 00:25:18 / March 27, 2016 @ 12:25 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabugao, Piat, Magapit, Aguiguican (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop).

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 10 km NNE of Calanasan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.0739° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3405° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NNE of Calanasan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-27 00:25:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-23 04:14:15	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	4.454	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us20005dvv	Id of event.
Event Code	20005dvv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005dvv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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