Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Manuel Roxas in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Manuel Roxas in Philippines on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us6000q4jq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q4jq. Global time and date of event 28/03/25 / 2025-03-28 08:33:16 / March 28, 2025 @ 8:33 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:33:16 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 124.5678° East, 6.4042° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Malapatan, Libungan, Carmen. Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen 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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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: 11 km WSW of Manuel Roxas, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.5678° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.4042° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km WSW of Manuel Roxas, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-28 08:33:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-09 07:16:41	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.202	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	us6000q4jq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q4jq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q4jq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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