Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near San Francisco in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from San Francisco in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/03/17 / 2017-03-05 04:06:50 / March 5, 2017 @ 4:06 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us100088nq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100088nq. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:06:50 / 12:06 pm (local time epicenter). 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 70.24 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.4007 East, latitude 9.782 North, depth = 70.24 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 10 km (6 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Buenavista (c. 18 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bato (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nasipit, Bato, Buenavista (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 2 km WNW of San Francisco, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.4007° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.782° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WNW of San Francisco, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-05 04:06:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-30 05:34:33	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	2.7	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us100088nq	Id of event.
Event Code	100088nq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100088nq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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