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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.6342S, 126.5764WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 91 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (57 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000hh1q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hh1q. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118.65 km (74 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/18 / 2018-10-21 23:42:21 / October 21, 2018 @ 11:42 pm. The temblor was picked up at 07:42:21 / 7:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5764 East, latitude 5.6342 North, depth = 118.65 km.

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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-nine 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: 91 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5764° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-21 23:42:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-28 21:50:00 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 1.736 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us1000hh1q Id of event.
Event Code 1000hh1q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hh1q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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