Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Pondaguitan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 80.04 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/16 / 2016-04-01 21:40:13 / April 1, 2016 @ 9:40 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.2835 East, latitude 6.468 North, depth = 80.04 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005g2x. Unique identifier: us20005g2x. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:40:13 / 5:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Samal, Santa Maria, Magnaga (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 16 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-nine 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. 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: 16 km NE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.2835° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.468° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	80.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NE 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	2016-04-01 21:40:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-08 23:28:03	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	0.92	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us20005g2x	Id of event.
Event Code	20005g2x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005g2x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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