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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 69 km E of Sarangani, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.44S, 126.0912WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Event id: us70006xtr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006xtr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 96.56 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:45:08 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.0912° East, 5.44° North, depth 96.56 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/12/19 / 2019-12-25 20:45:08 / December 25, 2019 @ 8:45 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan, Sarangani (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km E of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0912° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.44° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km E of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-25 20:45:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 00:41:27 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 1.697 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us70006xtr Id of event.
Event Code 70006xtr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006xtr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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