Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Cortes in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Cortes in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/08/24 / 2024-08-30 11:04:41 / August 30, 2024 @ 11:04 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:04:41 / 11:04 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nge4. Event ids that are associated: us7000nge4. Exact location, longitude 126.7613° East, latitude 9.3252° North, depth = 65.702 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.702 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Socorro, Dapa, Cantilan. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.7613° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.3252° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.702 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62 km E of Cortes, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-30 11:04:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-27 07:40:24	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.528	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 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	us7000nge4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nge4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nge4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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