Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Mindanao, Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Mindanao, Philippines kilometers (0 miles) from Mindanao, Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.9165 East, latitude 5.4988 North, depth = 65.31 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008psn. Id of event: us10008psn. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/17 / 2017-05-05 14:42:07 / May 5, 2017 @ 2:42 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:42:07 / 2:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 65.31 km (41 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tupi, Caburan, Polonoling. Close 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 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.9165° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.4988° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.31 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	2017-05-05 14:42:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-13 12:12:51	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	1.693	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	114	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	us10008psn	Id of event.
Event Code	10008psn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008psn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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