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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Palimbang in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.9809S, 123.1813WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 175 km SW of Palimbang, Philippines (109 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:07:20 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/17 / 2017-08-12 12:07:20 / August 12, 2017 @ 12:07 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 583.78 km (363 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.1813 East, latitude 4.9809 North, depth = 583.78 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a8tp. Id of event: us2000a8tp.

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

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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: 175 km SW of Palimbang, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.1813° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.9809° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 583.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 175km SW of Palimbang, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-12 12:07:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-18 08:38:10 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 4.529 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us2000a8tp Id of event.
Event Code 2000a8tp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a8tp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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