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

Posted by admin on November 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.8575S, 125.8405WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Del Carmen in Philippines on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000hx43. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hx43. Exact location, longitude 125.8405° East, latitude 9.8575° North, depth = 87.74 km. The temblor was detected at 00:59:13 / 12:59 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 87.74 km (55 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/11/18 / 2018-11-20 16:59:13 / November 20, 2018 @ 4:59 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabadbaran, Tubay, Loreto (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km W of Del Carmen, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.8405° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.8575° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km W of Del Carmen, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-20 16:59:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-28 14:47:12 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 2.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us1000hx43 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hx43 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hx43, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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