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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Saturday. Event id: us6000d6z4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d6z4. Exact location, longitude 126.1615° East, latitude 6.0934° North, depth = 126.42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 126.42 km (79 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/21 / 2021-01-09 06:25:36 / January 9, 2021 @ 6:25 am. The temblor was reported at 06:25:36 / 6:25 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Maria, Lupon, Basiawan. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 16 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 29 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.1615° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.0934° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	126.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 km S 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	2021-01-09 06:25:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-09 06:44:02	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	1.129	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us6000d6z4	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d6z4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d6z4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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