Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 42 km ESE of Manay, Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Manay in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 07:56:08 / 7:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.8895 East, latitude 7.058 North, depth = 55.84 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jjta. Id of event: us1000jjta. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/03/19 / 2019-03-12 23:56:08 / March 12, 2019 @ 11:56 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.84 km (35 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Batobato, Taytayan, Kinablangan. The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Taytayan (c. 6 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 42 km ESE of Manay, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.8895° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.058° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km ESE of Manay, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-12 23:56:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-22 02:51:21	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	1.3	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	136	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	us1000jjta	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jjta	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jjta,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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