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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.6589S, 125.7711WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/18 / 2018-12-25 23:31:19 / December 25, 2018 @ 11:31 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:31:19 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000j32c. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j32c. Exact location, longitude 125.7711° East, latitude 4.6589° North, depth = 175.79 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 175.79 km (109 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sarangani. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 89 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.7711° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.6589° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 175.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-25 23:31:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 05:16:05 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 2.402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us2000j32c Id of event.
Event Code 2000j32c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j32c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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