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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Mataas Na Kahoy in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.9677S, 121.1204WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Mataas Na Kahoy in Philippines on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.2 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 121.1204° East, latitude 13.9677° North, depth = 3.2 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60007esz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007esz. The temblor was reported at 22:33:34 / 10:33 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 14:33:34 / January 12, 2020 @ 2:33 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Real, Orion, Loma de Gato. Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 1 km NE of Mataas Na Kahoy, 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 121.1204° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9677° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NE of Mataas Na Kahoy, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 14:33:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 17:53:28 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 0.222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us60007esz Id of event.
Event Code 60007esz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007esz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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