Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Bobon in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bobon in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006uz6. Unique identifier: us10006uz6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78.4 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 126.4868 East, latitude 6.6471 North, depth = 78.4 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:55:19 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/09/16 / 2016-09-24 06:55:19 / September 24, 2016 @ 6:55 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Magnaga, Manay, Lupon (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 30 km SE of Bobon, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.4868° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.6471° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km SE of Bobon, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-24 06:55:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-22 10:50:25	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	0.994	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183	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	us10006uz6	Id of event.
Event Code	10006uz6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006uz6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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