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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Celebes Sea


Earthquake location 5.8866S, 123.7171WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes Celebes Sea kilometers (0 miles) from Celebes Sea on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.7171 East, latitude 5.8866 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10008n96. Event ids that are associated: us10008n96. The temblor was detected at 16:34:58 / 4:34 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 16:34:58 / April 24, 2017 @ 4:34 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puloypuloy, Maitum, Kalamansig (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Maitum (c. 8 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bantogon (c. 5 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Puloypuloy (c. 5 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Celebes Sea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.7171° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.8866° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Celebes Sea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-24 16:34:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-08 13:48:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10008n96 Id of event.
Event Code 10008n96 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008n96, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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