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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on June 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.2628S, 126.0812WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 143 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines (89 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.0812 East, latitude 4.2628 North, depth = 118.88 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:55:57 / 5:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118.88 km (74 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/17 / 2017-05-31 09:55:57 / May 31, 2017 @ 9:55 am. Event id: us20009l46. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009l46.

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

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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. 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: 143 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0812° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.2628° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-31 09:55:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-30 07:40:53 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 3.697 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us20009l46 Id of event.
Event Code 20009l46 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009l46, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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