Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Tamparan in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Tamparan in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 156.98 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000c739. Event ids that are associated: us6000c739. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:29:33 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 124.4477° East, latitude 7.9697° North, depth = 156.98 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/10/20 / 2020-10-06 14:29:33 / October 6, 2020 @ 2:29 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carmen, Pagaluñgan, Glad. Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Cagayan de Oro (c. 445 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Iligan City (c. 312 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mantampay (c. 265 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 16 km NE of Tamparan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.4477° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.9697° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	156.98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NE of Tamparan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-06 14:29:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-14 14:58:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	1.434	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us6000c739	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c739	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c739,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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