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

Posted by admin on September 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.5882S, 125.5363WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 22:58:43 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.5363 East, latitude 6.5882 North, depth = 79.38 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000abqp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000abqp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.38 km (49 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/08/17 / 2017-08-22 14:58:43 / August 22, 2017 @ 2:58 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lopez Jaena, Badak, Santo Niño. Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.5363° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.5882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-22 14:58:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-18 21:11:31 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 0.48 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us2000abqp Id of event.
Event Code 2000abqp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000abqp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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