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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Kiblawan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.6162S, 125.1881WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Kiblawan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:11:07 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006wzr. Unique identifier: us70006wzr. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 125.1881° East, 6.6162° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 20/12/19 / 2019-12-20 12:11:07 / December 20, 2019 @ 12:11 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Glad, Panabo, Dado (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km W of Kiblawan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1881° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.6162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2019-12-20 12:11:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-17 02:11:48 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 0.594 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us70006wzr Id of event.
Event Code 70006wzr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006wzr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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