Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Claveria in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Claveria in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/18 / 2018-09-12 08:27:12 / September 12, 2018 @ 8:27 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.99 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:27:12 / 4:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 120.9447 East, latitude 18.7414 North, depth = 32.99 km. Unique identifier: us2000hhkl. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hhkl.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bacarra (c. 9 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Batac City, Aparri, Dingras.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 20 km NW of Claveria, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.9447° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7414° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km NW of Claveria, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-12 08:27:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-09 12:28:56	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	4.057	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us2000hhkl	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hhkl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hhkl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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