Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Cogan in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cogan in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008vad. Unique identifier: us20008vad. The temblor was reported at 03:43:48 / 3:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.07 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 123.9879° East, 10.5857° North, depth 51.07 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/17 / 2017-03-20 19:43:48 / March 20, 2017 @ 7:43 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Cebu City (c. 798 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Lapu-Lapu City (c. 350 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Mandaue City (c. 331 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Toledo (c. 156 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Talisay (c. 133 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bato, Luna, Kananya (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WSW of Cogan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.9879° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.5857° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WSW of Cogan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-20 19:43:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-10 16:39:30	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	24.334	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	143	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	us20008vad	Id of event.
Event Code	20008vad	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008vad,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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