Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Putol in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Putol in Philippines. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:54:16 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 169.881 km (106 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 21:54:16 / April 30, 2024 @ 9:54 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mx6z. Id of event: us6000mx6z. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.6955 East, latitude 13.9921 North, depth = 169.881 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bocaue, Sulucan, Mabitac (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 3 km W of Putol, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.6955° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.9921° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	169.881 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km W of Putol, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-30 21:54:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-19 06:41:29	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	20.336	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us6000mx6z	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mx6z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mx6z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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