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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kiamba in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.9363S, 124.5788WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kiamba in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 124.5788° East, latitude 5.9363° North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/17 / 2017-10-01 16:45:23 / October 1, 2017 @ 4:45 pm. Unique identifier: us2000b22v. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000b22v. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:45:23 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Columbio, Buluan, Suyan. Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (43 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 7 km SW of Kiamba, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.5788° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.9363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SW of Kiamba, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-01 16:45:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-18 18:33:24 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 1.501 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us2000b22v Id of event.
Event Code 2000b22v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000b22v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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