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


Earthquake location 4.3407S, 125.7114WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 120 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines (75 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 125.7114 East, latitude 4.3407 North, depth = 165.232 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:33:19 / 11:33 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000p9tu. Event ids that are associated: us7000p9tu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 165.232 km (103 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/25 / 2025-01-29 11:33:19 / January 29, 2025 @ 11:33 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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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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: 120 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.7114° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.3407° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 165.232 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-29 11:33:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-29 12:54:25 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us7000p9tu Id of event.
Event Code 7000p9tu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p9tu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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