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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near New Leyte in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.5015S, 125.7531WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from New Leyte in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 00:25:06 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 52.31 km (33 miles). Global time of event 16/06/15 / 2015-06-16 16:25:06 / June 16, 2015 @ 4:25 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 125.7531 East, latitude 7.5015 North, depth 52.31 km, unique identifier, us20002qcq. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us20002qcq,.

Close countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Valencia (c. 83 600 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Makilala, Saguing, Digos.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.7531° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.5015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km ENE of New Leyte, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-16 16:25:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-16 21:36:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us20002qcq Id of event.
Event Code 20002qcq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002qcq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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