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


Earthquake location 11.1277S, 126.5592WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Sulangan in Philippines on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007dj9. Unique identifier: us20007dj9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.88 km (31 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:28:18 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.5592° East, latitude 11.1277° North, depth = 49.88 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/09/16 / 2016-09-30 21:28:18 / September 30, 2016 @ 9:28 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guiuan (min 5000 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. 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 two and in the last 365 days fourteen 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: 82 km ENE of Sulangan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5592° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.1277° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km ENE of Sulangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-30 21:28:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-24 22:16:01 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 10.319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 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 us20007dj9 Id of event.
Event Code 20007dj9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007dj9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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