Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Tubajon in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Tubajon in Philippines on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 125.3979 East, latitude 10.207 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000dcym. Event ids that are associated: us6000dcym. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/21 / 2021-01-22 23:14:06 / January 22, 2021 @ 11:14 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:14:06 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Dulag (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dulag, Socorro, Dapa. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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: 22 km SW of Tubajon, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.3979° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.207° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km SW of Tubajon, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-22 23:14:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-30 03:20:01	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	3.122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us6000dcym	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dcym	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dcym,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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