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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 79 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines


Earthquake location 5.6064S, 126.2865WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Caburan in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 126.2865° East, latitude 5.6064° North, depth = 115.08 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cjq8. Id of event: us2000cjq8. Global time and date of event 15/01/18 / 2018-01-15 18:54:09 / January 15, 2018 @ 6:54 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:54:09 / 2:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 115.08 km (72 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sarangani, Caburan (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 79 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2865° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km ESE of Caburan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-15 18:54:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-15 21:03:59 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 1.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us2000cjq8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjq8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjq8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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