Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Bolitoc in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Bolitoc in Philippines. Global time and date of event 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 10:27:41 / February 4, 2020 @ 10:27 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.2924 East, latitude 15.5852 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us70007pe8. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007pe8. The temblor was detected at 18:27:41 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Masinloc (c. 28 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Iba (c. 26 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 26 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Botolan (c. 23 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Amuñgan (c. 12 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Lucapon (c. 5 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan, Botolan, Iba (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 64 km WSW of Bolitoc, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.2924° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.5852° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km WSW of Bolitoc, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-04 10:27:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-28 09:58:44	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	7.389	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us70007pe8	Id of event.
Event Code	70007pe8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007pe8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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