Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Lucap in Philippines

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Lucap in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/03/20 / 2020-03-14 00:13:51 / March 14, 2020 @ 12:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 120.0185 East, latitude 16.1846 North, depth = 89.74 km. The temblor was detected at 08:13:51 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us60008hph. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008hph. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89.74 km (56 miles).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pura, Amuñgan, Bangar. Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Baguio (c. 272 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Urdaneta (c. 101 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Manaoag (c. 59 100 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Lingayen (c. 56 600 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km E of Lucap, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.0185° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.1846° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	89.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km E of Lucap, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-14 00:13:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-20 00:33:19	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	2.252	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	126	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	us60008hph	Id of event.
Event Code	60008hph	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60008hph,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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