Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Balayan in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Balayan in Philippines on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:31:31 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 120.7585 East, latitude 13.9305 North, depth = 219.461 km. Unique identifier: us7000ngkm. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ngkm. Global time and date of event 22/09/24 / 2024-09-22 07:31:31 / September 22, 2024 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 219.461 km (136 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mabitac, Tayabas, Obando. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km ESE of Balayan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.7585° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.9305° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	219.461 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km ESE of Balayan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-22 07:31:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-28 06:17:00	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	259	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	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	8.302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 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	us7000ngkm	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ngkm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ngkm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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