Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Bual in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Bual in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:18:22 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000627v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000627v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 124.9652° East, 6.7966° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/19 / 2019-10-16 12:18:22 / October 16, 2019 @ 12:18 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Suyan, Lasang, Cotabato (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 6 km E of Bual, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.9652° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.7966° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km E of Bual, 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 12:18:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-11-10 11:24:35	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	0.667	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us6000627v	Id of event.
Event Code	6000627v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000627v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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