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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 18 km E of Santa Maria, Philippines


Earthquake location 7.9811S, 126.614WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 86.673 km, 126.614° East, 7.9811° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/08/24 / 2024-08-03 01:17:11 / August 3, 2024 @ 1:17 am. Unique identifier: us7000n8ma. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n8ma. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:17:11 / 1:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.673 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lianga, Loreto, San Mariano. Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 18 km E of Santa Maria, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.614° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.9811° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.673 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km E of Santa Maria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-03 01:17:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-22 23:57:36 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.368 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us7000n8ma Id of event.
Event Code 7000n8ma An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n8ma, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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