Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Ilioilio in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Ilioilio in Philippines on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 119.6273 East, latitude 15.8573 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us60007bh5. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007bh5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:46:23 / 4:46 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 20:46:23 / January 6, 2020 @ 8:46 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manaoag, Catablan, Minien East. Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Manaoag (c. 59 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Lingayen (c. 56 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Binmaley (c. 44 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Camiling (c. 39 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Agoo (c. 29 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km SW of Ilioilio, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.6273° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.8573° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km SW of Ilioilio, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-06 20:46:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-28 21:40:44	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	10.31	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us60007bh5	Id of event.
Event Code	60007bh5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007bh5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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