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

Posted by admin on February 6, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.5716S, 126.6745WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 103 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (64 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.97 km (39 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000dev3. Event ids that are associated: us6000dev3. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/21 / 2021-01-31 20:58:00 / January 31, 2021 @ 8:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 126.6745° East, latitude 5.5716° North, depth = 61.97 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:58:00 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 103 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6745° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.5716° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 km SSE 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 2021-01-31 20:58:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-06 20:50:00 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 1.844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us6000dev3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dev3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dev3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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