Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 2 km WSW of Talaga, Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Talaga in Philippines on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 120.9169° East, 13.7284° North, depth 145.29 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:52:10 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/17 / 2017-09-16 14:52:10 / September 16, 2017 @ 2:52 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000ap4b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ap4b. The epicenter was at a depth of 145.29 km (90 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Angono, Makati City, Socorro (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km WSW of Talaga, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.9169° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7284° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	145.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WSW of Talaga, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-16 14:52:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-15 15:31:10	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	8.824	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	175	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	us2000ap4b	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ap4b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ap4b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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