Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tamisan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Tamisan in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008hg5. Id of event: us20008hg5. Global time and date of event 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 23:45:47 / January 21, 2017 @ 11:45 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:45:47 / 7:45 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 126.2859° East, latitude 6.7188° North, depth = 76.28 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 76.28 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Panabo, San Mariano, Santa Maria (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km S of Tamisan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.2859° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.7188° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	76.28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km S of Tamisan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-01-21 23:45:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-16 04:48:31	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	0.783	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	174	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	us20008hg5	Id of event.
Event Code	20008hg5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008hg5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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