Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Tiguisan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tiguisan in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 11:31:14 / 11:31 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000dzn3. Event ids that are associated: us2000dzn3. 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 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 03:31:14 / April 7, 2018 @ 3:31 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 121.43 East, latitude 12.8345 North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from San Jose (c. 118 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Pinamalayan (c. 43 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sablayan (c. 38 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mansalay (c. 23 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Roxas (c. 14 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Laiya, Semirara, Boac (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 one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km W of Tiguisan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.43° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.8345° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km W of Tiguisan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-07 03:31:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-03 02:23:06	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	8.14	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 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	us2000dzn3	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dzn3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dzn3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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