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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Jabonga in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.3338S, 125.366WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Jabonga in Philippines on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/09/16 / 2016-09-26 22:47:35 / September 26, 2016 @ 10:47 pm. The temblor was detected at 06:47:35 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20007c5l. Unique identifier: us20007c5l. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 113.8 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 125.366 East, latitude 9.3338 North, depth = 113.8 km.

The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mariano (c. 70 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Balingasag, Dapa, Lagonglong.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km W of Jabonga, Philippines. This data 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 125.366° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.3338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W of Jabonga, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-26 22:47:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-12 01:35:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 2.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us20007c5l Id of event.
Event Code 20007c5l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007c5l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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