Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Caburan in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Caburan in Philippines on Saturday. Global time and date of event 23/07/16 / 2016-07-23 07:54:15 / July 23, 2016 @ 7:54 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 107.27 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 125.8508 East, latitude 5.7228 North, depth = 107.27 km. Event id: us20006i3m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006i3m. The temblor was picked up at 15:54:15 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Conel, Maluñgun, General Santos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-nine 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 31 km SE of Caburan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.8508° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.7228° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	107.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SE of Caburan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-23 07:54:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-17 06:52:15	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	1.365	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us20006i3m	Id of event.
Event Code	20006i3m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006i3m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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