Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Luksuhin in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Luksuhin in Philippines. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:11:53 / 4:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/03/19 / 2019-03-11 20:11:53 / March 11, 2019 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000jjcl. Event ids that are associated: us1000jjcl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 120.8705 East, latitude 14.067 North, depth = 160.58 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 160.58 km (100 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pulilan, Plaridel, Pandi. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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: 3 km SSW of Luksuhin, 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	120.8705° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.067° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	160.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SSW of Luksuhin, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-11 20:11:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-09 23:36:25	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	0.073	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us1000jjcl	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jjcl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jjcl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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