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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 9 km ENE of Baon, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.817S, 126.1756WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Baon in Philippines. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:04:33 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20006gqw. Event ids that are associated: us20006gqw. Exact location, longitude 126.1756° East, latitude 6.817° North, depth = 54.27 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.27 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/16 / 2016-07-18 14:04:33 / July 18, 2016 @ 2:04 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cambanugoy, Guihing Proper, Sirib (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km ENE of Baon, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1756° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.817° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ENE of Baon, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-18 14:04:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-15 19:28:06 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 0.643 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us20006gqw Id of event.
Event Code 20006gqw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gqw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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