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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 66 km ESE of Mangili, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.767S, 126.2384WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Mangili in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 99.29 km (62 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/01/18 / 2018-01-21 06:52:05 / January 21, 2018 @ 6:52 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000cdsa. Event ids that are associated: us1000cdsa. The temblor was reported at 14:52:05 / 2:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.2384 East, latitude 5.767 North, depth = 99.29 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Talagutong, Caburan (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km ESE of Mangili, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2384° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.767° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km ESE of Mangili, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-21 06:52:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-15 06:26:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 1.45 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us1000cdsa Id of event.
Event Code 1000cdsa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cdsa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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