Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 6 km WNW of Guipos, Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guipos in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/09/16 / 2016-09-29 00:46:03 / September 29, 2016 @ 12:46 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007dh4. Unique identifier: us20007dh4. The temblor was picked up at 08:46:03 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.17 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 123.2704 East, latitude 7.7376 North, depth = 21.17 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dipolog, Jimenez, Kalawit (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Pagadian (c. 186 900 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Muricay (c. 132 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Dipolog (c. 93 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ozamiz City (c. 93 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Lala (c. 61 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Tangub (c. 29 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	123.2704° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.7376° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km WNW of Guipos, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-29 00:46:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-23 04:23:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	2.384	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us20007dh4	Id of event.
Event Code	20007dh4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007dh4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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