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


Earthquake location 6.6064S, 125.1512WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Kiblawan in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000627h. Id of event: us6000627h. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:41:24 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 125.1512° East, 6.6064° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/10/19 / 2019-10-16 14:41:24 / October 16, 2019 @ 2:41 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Midsayap, Caburan, Lasang (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-three, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km W of Kiblawan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1512° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.6064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km W of Kiblawan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-16 14:41:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-30 07:33:49 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 0.626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us6000627h Id of event.
Event Code 6000627h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000627h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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