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


Earthquake location 11.3664S, 125.271WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Mabini in Philippines on Thursday. Unique identifier: us1000dah8. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dah8. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/03/18 / 2018-03-28 22:49:27 / March 28, 2018 @ 10:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:49:27 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 101.96 km (63 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.271 East, latitude 11.3664 North, depth = 101.96 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kampokpok, Baybay, Pagsanghan (min 5000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km ESE of Mabini, 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 125.271° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.3664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 101.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ESE of Mabini, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-28 22:49:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-29 00:10:01 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 25.194 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us1000dah8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dah8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dah8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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