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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Pagudpud in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Pagudpud in Philippines on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.03 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/04/17 / 2017-04-16 23:28:33 / April 16, 2017 @ 11:28 pm. Exact location, longitude 120.725° East, latitude 18.7288° North, depth = 35.03 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:28:33 / 7:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10008i81. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008i81.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ballesteros, Cabaritan East, Batac City. Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Bacarra (c. 9 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Cabaritan East (c. 9 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km NNW of Pagudpud, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.725° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7288° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.03 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km NNW of Pagudpud, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-16 23:28:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-16 23:54:28	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	4.081	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us10008i81	Id of event.
Event Code	10008i81	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008i81,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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