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

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Dolores in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 120.7293° East, latitude 17.6038° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/24 / 2024-11-23 11:17:19 / November 23, 2024 @ 11:17 am. Event id: us7000nwn1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nwn1. The temblor was reported at 11:17:19 / 11:17 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Baculongan, Rimus, Bangar. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tagudin (c. 35 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 28 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 5 km SSE of Dolores, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.7293° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.6038° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SSE of Dolores, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-23 11:17:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-08 09:51:21	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.197	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us7000nwn1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nwn1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nwn1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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