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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 210 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines


Earthquake location 4.4179S, 127.0843WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 210 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines (130 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/11/15 / 2015-11-29 10:51:44 / November 29, 2015 @ 10:51 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.73 km (5 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:51:44 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 127.0843 East, latitude 4.4179 North, depth = 7.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100042ze. Ids that are associated to the event: us100042ze.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 210 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines. This information 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 127.0843° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.4179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-29 10:51:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-13 07:20:58 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 3.632 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us100042ze Id of event.
Event Code 100042ze An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100042ze, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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