Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 11 km WNW of Bagalangit, Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Bagalangit in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 134.38 km (83 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:15:54 / 9:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/09/15 / 2015-09-09 01:15:54 / September 9, 2015 @ 1:15 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 120.7806° East, latitude 13.7512° North, depth = 134.38 km. Unique identifier: us20003mtw. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003mtw.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Makati City, Tayabas, Lucban (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km WNW of Bagalangit, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.7806° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7512° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	134.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km WNW of Bagalangit, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-09 01:15:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-24 04:38:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	14.451	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us20003mtw	Id of event.
Event Code	20003mtw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003mtw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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