Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.1536S, 127.3661WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 187 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (116 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:51:38 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 127.3661 East, latitude 5.1536 North, depth = 85.04 km. Unique identifier: us6000dcvl. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dcvl. Global time and date of event 21/01/21 / 2021-01-21 17:51:38 / January 21, 2021 @ 5:51 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.04 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

Did you feel anything?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 187 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

Copyright © 2021 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3661° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.1536° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 187 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-21 17:51:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-03 16:45:55 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 2.604 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000dcvl Id of event.
Event Code 6000dcvl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dcvl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply