Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near San Teodoro in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from San Teodoro in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 17:38:03 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 120.9102° East, latitude 13.3248° North, depth = 237.17 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/01/17 / 2017-01-01 09:38:03 / January 1, 2017 @ 9:38 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10007u3t. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007u3t. The epicenter was at a depth of 237.17 km (147 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lipa City (c. 212 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tanauan (c. 68 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nasugbu (c. 62 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Candelaria (c. 60 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Malabag, Castañas, Janagdong. 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.9102° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.3248° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	237.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SW of San Teodoro, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-01 09:38:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-20 10:09:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	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	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	8.437	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	133	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	us10007u3t	Id of event.
Event Code	10007u3t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007u3t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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