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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Mataas Na Kahoy in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.9584S, 121.1282WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Mataas Na Kahoy in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007ett. Unique identifier: us60007ett. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 15:51:43 / January 12, 2020 @ 3:51 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.1282 East, latitude 13.9584 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:51:43 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orion, Real, Loma de Gato. Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km E of Mataas Na Kahoy, Philippines. This data 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 121.1282° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km E of Mataas Na Kahoy, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 15:51:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 22:11:34 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 0.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us60007ett Id of event.
Event Code 60007ett An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ett, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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