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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 4 km N of Talagutong, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.3017S, 125.6729WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Talagutong in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 125.6729° East, latitude 6.3017° North, depth = 100.65 km. Event id: us2000gia2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gia2. The temblor was detected at 15:37:33 / 3:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 100.65 km (63 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 07:37:33 / July 26, 2018 @ 7:37 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Malasila, Columbio, Carpenter (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km N of Talagutong, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.3017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km N of Talagutong, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-26 07:37:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-12 12:14:10 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 0.768 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us2000gia2 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gia2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gia2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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