Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Bohol, Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Bohol, Philippines kilometers (0 miles) from Bohol, Philippines. Event id: us70006nrk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006nrk. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.1699 East, latitude 9.3799 North, depth = 528.08 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 528.08 km (328 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/12/19 / 2019-12-13 13:34:12 / December 13, 2019 @ 1:34 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:34:12 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lagonglong, Sibonga, Moog. Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Tagbilaran City (c. 86 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Danao (c. 17 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sibonga (c. 12 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tibigan (c. 11 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Talibon (c. 11 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Siquijor (c. 10 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: Bohol, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.1699° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.3799° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	528.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Bohol, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-13 13:34:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-11 10:03:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	8.551	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	us70006nrk	Id of event.
Event Code	70006nrk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006nrk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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