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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near San Vicente in Philippines


Earthquake location 18.7577S, 122.4449WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from San Vicente in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 19:41:09 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 11:41:09 / January 15, 2020 @ 11:41 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 30.76 km, 122.4449° East, 18.7577° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.76 km (19 miles). Id of earthquake: us60007i8m. Event ids that are associated: us60007i8m.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Gonzaga (c. 7 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Santa Ana (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gonzaga, Santa Ana (min 5000 pop). Close 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 41 km NE of San Vicente, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.4449° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7577° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NE of San Vicente, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-15 11:41:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-13 09:39:08 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 4.236 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 us60007i8m Id of event.
Event Code 60007i8m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007i8m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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