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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 28 km N of Santa Monica, Philippines


Earthquake location 10.2761S, 126.0267WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Santa Monica in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/17 / 2017-12-25 15:01:36 / December 25, 2017 @ 3:01 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:01:36 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.0267 East, latitude 10.2761 North, depth = 59.57 km. Id of earthquake: us2000chuv. Event ids that are associated: us2000chuv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.57 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guiuan, Bacuag, Claver (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km N of Santa Monica, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0267° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2761° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km N of Santa Monica, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-25 15:01:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-10 21:30:47 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 3.216 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us2000chuv Id of event.
Event Code 2000chuv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000chuv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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