Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Banisilan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Banisilan in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 21:30:52 / September 23, 2017 @ 9:30 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000augu. Event ids that are associated: us2000augu. The temblor was reported at 05:30:52 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 124.7724° East, 7.4717° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Marawi City (c. 143 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Valencia (c. 83 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cabanglasan, Mamungan, New Visayas (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. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.7724° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.4717° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km ESE of Banisilan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-23 21:30:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-22 01:30:59	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	0.894	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	94	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	us2000augu	Id of event.
Event Code	2000augu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000augu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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