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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, Mindanao, Philippines


Earthquake location 7.716S, 126.8614WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes Mindanao, Philippines kilometers (0 miles) from Mindanao, Philippines on Saturday. Event id: us700097kr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700097kr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:16:53 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 64.71 km, 126.8614° East, 7.716° North. Global time and date of event 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 23:16:53 / April 25, 2020 @ 11:16 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64.71 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 Hinatuan, Cabinuangan, Monkayo. Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Cabinuangan (c. 10 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Mindanao, 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 126.8614° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.716° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Mindanao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-25 23:16:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 21:43:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1.424 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us700097kr Id of event.
Event Code 700097kr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700097kr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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