Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ponong in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Ponong in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/09/19 / 2019-09-04 21:14:42 / September 4, 2019 @ 9:14 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 122.5999° East, 11.0892° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us70005euq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005euq. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:14:42 / 5:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bugang, Lopez Jaena, Minapasoc. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Bacolod City (c. 454 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Mansilingan (c. 454 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Iloilo (c. 387 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Bago City (c. 150 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cadiz (c. 129 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Roxas City (c. 102 700 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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: 2 km WNW of Ponong, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.5999° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.0892° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WNW of Ponong, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-04 21:14:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-18 02:07:15	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	3.406	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	150	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	us70005euq	Id of event.
Event Code	70005euq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005euq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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