Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Marihatag in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Marihatag in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 16:38:08 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 46.44 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.7121 East, latitude 8.7329 North, depth = 46.44 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/20 / 2020-12-29 16:38:08 / December 29, 2020 @ 4:38 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d6qb. Unique identifier: us6000d6qb.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bah-Bah, Patin-ay, San Francisco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 46 km E of Marihatag, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.7121° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.7329° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 km E of Marihatag, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-29 16:38:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-11 17:56:39	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	1.997	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	us6000d6qb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d6qb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d6qb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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