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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near San Isidro in Philippines


Earthquake location 10.1159S, 126.1982WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from San Isidro in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 02:26:46 / 2:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 18:26:46 / March 20, 2016 @ 6:26 pm. Exact location, longitude 126.1982° East, latitude 10.1159° North, depth = 64.08 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64.08 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005b9l. Id of event: us20005b9l.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cantilan, Luna, Surigao (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 17 km NE of San Isidro, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1982° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.1159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NE of San Isidro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-20 18:26:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-20 20:05:56 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 3.088 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us20005b9l Id of event.
Event Code 20005b9l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005b9l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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