Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Dicabisagan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Dicabisagan in Philippines on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.9 km (11 miles). Global time and date of event 28/03/20 / 2020-03-28 07:22:59 / March 28, 2020 @ 7:22 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:22:59 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008km5. Unique identifier: us70008km5. Exact location, longitude 122.3181° East, latitude 17.5234° North, depth = 17.9 km.

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Tuguegarao City (c. 115 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Ilagan (c. 72 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Solana (c. 71 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tabuk (c. 27 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Cabagan (c. 25 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Roxas (c. 16 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Magapit, Aguiguican, Piat, San Manuel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 49 km NNW of Dicabisagan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.3181° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.5234° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km NNW of Dicabisagan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-28 07:22:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-16 06:55:30	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	5.394	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113	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	us70008km5	Id of event.
Event Code	70008km5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008km5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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