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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Mindanao, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.8192S, 126.7976WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported Mindanao, Philippines kilometers (0 miles) from Mindanao, Philippines on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.7976 East, latitude 6.8192 North, depth = 59.57 km. Global time and date of event 23/09/16 / 2016-09-23 23:32:57 / September 23, 2016 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006upy. Unique identifier: us10006upy. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:32:57 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.57 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baganga, Lupon, Sigaboy (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Mindanao, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7976° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8192° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Mindanao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-23 23:32:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-22 01:06:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us10006upy Id of event.
Event Code 10006upy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006upy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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