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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Santa Maria in Philippines


Earthquake location 8.069S, 126.6599WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n8su. Id of event: us7000n8su. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:30:09 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/08/24 / 2024-08-04 07:30:09 / August 4, 2024 @ 7:30 am. Exact location, longitude 126.6599° East, latitude 8.069° North, depth = 80.601 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 80.601 km (50 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manat, Nabunturan, Loreto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nabunturan (c. 16 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 25 km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6599° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.069° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.601 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km ENE 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 2024-08-04 07:30:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-24 05:57:50 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.461 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us7000n8su Id of event.
Event Code 7000n8su An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n8su, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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