Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 37 km ESE of San Ignacio, Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from San Ignacio in Philippines on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 12:21:19 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cque. Unique identifier: us6000cque. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.7933 East, latitude 6.9637 North, depth = 69.81 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 69.81 km (43 miles). Global time and date of event 18/11/20 / 2020-11-18 12:21:19 / November 18, 2020 @ 12:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taytayan, Lupon, Sigaboy (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 37 km ESE of San Ignacio, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.7933° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.9637° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69.81 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km ESE of San Ignacio, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-11-18 12:21:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-13 14:02:54	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	1.209	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	143	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	us6000cque	Id of event.
Event Code	6000cque	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000cque,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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