Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Cortes in Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 133 km E of Cortes, Philippines (83 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 22:58:54 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us6000c0mi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c0mi. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/09/20 / 2020-09-20 22:58:54 / September 20, 2020 @ 10:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 127.3912° East, 9.4883° North.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 133 km E of Cortes, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.3912° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.4883° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	133 km E of Cortes, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-20 22:58:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-07 23:30:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	2.998	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	137	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	us6000c0mi	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c0mi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c0mi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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