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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Gadung in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.7506S, 123.6582WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Gadung in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 603.48 km (375 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 123.6582° East, latitude 6.7506° North, depth = 603.48 km. Event id: us20004upt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004upt. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/16 / 2016-01-26 14:36:55 / January 26, 2016 @ 2:36 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:36:55 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Pagaluñgan (c. 31 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Maganoy (c. 17 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Dalican (c. 13 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from South Upi (c. 12 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dado, Pagaluñgan, Kauran.

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. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 40 km W of Gadung, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.6582° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7506° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 603.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km W of Gadung, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-26 14:36:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-26 18:57:12 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 5.365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us20004upt Id of event.
Event Code 20004upt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004upt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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