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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 49 km N of Dicabisagan, Philippines


Earthquake location 17.5262S, 122.4762WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Dicabisagan in Philippines. Unique identifier: us700046p2. Ids that are associated to the event: us700046p2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.42 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/06/19 / 2019-06-20 08:40:26 / June 20, 2019 @ 8:40 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 122.4762 East, latitude 17.5262 North, depth = 32.42 km. 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 16:40:26 / 4:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Tuguegarao City (c. 115 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ilagan (c. 72 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Solana (c. 71 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cabagan (c. 25 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from San Mariano (c. 12 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Nattapian (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Reina Mercedes, Liwan, Naguilian.

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km N of Dicabisagan, Philippines. This information 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 122.4762° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.5262° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km N of Dicabisagan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-20 08:40:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 08:58:17 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 3.712 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 97 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 us700046p2 Id of event.
Event Code 700046p2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700046p2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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