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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 7 km ENE of Rosario, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.4156S, 126.062WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Rosario in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 126.062° East, 8.4156° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:53:58 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter). 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: us10006per. Unique identifier: us10006per. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/16 / 2016-09-07 09:53:58 / September 7, 2016 @ 9:53 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nabunturan, Magallanes, Taytayan.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 7 km ENE of Rosario, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.062° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.4156° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ENE of Rosario, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-07 09:53:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-07 07:32:42 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 1.42 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us10006per Id of event.
Event Code 10006per An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006per, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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