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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near San Isidro in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.7644S, 121.2705WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Isidro in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 06:54:29 / January 13, 2020 @ 6:54 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:54:29 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 121.2705° East, 13.7644° North. Id of earthquake: us60007euu. Event ids that are associated: us60007euu.

Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pinugay, Antipolo, Cainta. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 4 km E of San Isidro, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.2705° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7644° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of San Isidro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-13 06:54:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-09 08:18:55 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 21.926 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 us60007euu Id of event.
Event Code 60007euu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007euu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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