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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Sangay in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.4569S, 123.8585WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Sangay in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 568.4 km (353 miles). Global time and date of event 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 08:04:20 / November 19, 2015 @ 8:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 568.4 km, 123.8585° East, 6.4569° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003zh9. Unique identifier: us10003zh9. The temblor was reported at 16:04:20 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacurong, Gansing, Sampao. The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Isulan (c. 31 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Laguilayan (c. 17 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Maganoy (c. 17 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Dalican (c. 13 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km W of Sangay, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.8585° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.4569° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 568.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km W of Sangay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-19 08:04:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 08:39:17 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 1.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us10003zh9 Id of event.
Event Code 10003zh9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zh9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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