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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.3206S, 126.6269WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines on Friday. Event id: us200064s0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200064s0. Exact location of event, depth 126.54 km, 126.6269° East, 6.3206° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:35:27 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 07:35:27 / June 10, 2016 @ 7:35 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126.54 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lupon, San Ignacio, Mati (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km E of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6269° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.3206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km E of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-10 07:35:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-06 07:53:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 1.279 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us200064s0 Id of event.
Event Code 200064s0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200064s0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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