Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Dolores in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Dolores in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 120.9635° East, 17.7242° North, depth 38.7 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/02/21 / 2021-02-17 09:55:12 / February 17, 2021 @ 9:55 am. The temblor was reported at 09:55:12 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000dkel. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dkel. The epicenter was at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Tuguegarao City (c. 115 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Solana (c. 71 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cabagan, Magapit, Magapit, Aguiguican (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km ENE of Dolores, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.9635° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7242° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km ENE of Dolores, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-17 09:55:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-13 13:42:30	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	259	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	5.648	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 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	us6000dkel	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dkel	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dkel,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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