Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 21 km WSW of Itbayat, Philippines


Earthquake location 20.7319S, 121.644WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 67.91 km (42 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.644 East, latitude 20.7319 North, depth = 67.91 km. The temblor was detected at 05:37:54 / 5:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/18 / 2018-07-30 21:37:54 / July 30, 2018 @ 9:37 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000ghuc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ghuc.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop).

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel it?

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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km WSW of Itbayat, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.644° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.7319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WSW of Itbayat, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-30 21:37:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-31 03:24:37 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 2.14 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us2000ghuc Id of event.
Event Code 2000ghuc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ghuc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply