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


Earthquake location 8.4658S, 126.9566WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n9mx. Unique identifier: us6000n9mx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:35:23 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 126.9566° East, 8.4658° North, depth 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/06/24 / 2024-06-24 22:35:23 / June 24, 2024 @ 10:35 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Barobo (c. 9 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cateel (c. 6 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Lingig (c. 6 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cateel, Barobo, Tagbina.

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 three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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.

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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: 66 km ENE of Barcelona, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9566° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.4658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km ENE of Barcelona, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-24 22:35:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-04 03:02:35 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.946 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us6000n9mx Id of event.
Event Code 6000n9mx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n9mx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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