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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.6355S, 126.6565WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 96 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (60 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.6565 East, latitude 5.6355 North, depth = 37.39 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:42:28 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/03/20 / 2020-03-12 18:42:28 / March 12, 2020 @ 6:42 pm. Event id: us70008gvj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008gvj. The epicenter was at a depth of 37.39 km (23 miles).

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

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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 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: 96 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6565° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6355° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-12 18:42:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-30 15:24:39 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 259 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 1.782 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us70008gvj Id of event.
Event Code 70008gvj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008gvj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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