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

Posted by admin on January 10, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.4858S, 125.3417WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from New Baclayon in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:19:11 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/12/19 / 2019-12-15 11:19:11 / December 15, 2019 @ 11:19 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006tnl. Unique identifier: us70006tnl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.3417 East, latitude 6.4858 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sampao, Laguilayan, Batobato. Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop).

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 fifty-three, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSW of New Baclayon, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3417° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.4858° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW of New Baclayon, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-15 11:19:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-10 10:47:31 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 0.626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us70006tnl Id of event.
Event Code 70006tnl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006tnl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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