Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Talisay in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Talisay in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118.14 km (73 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.6558° East, 9.783° North, depth 118.14 km. The temblor was detected at 06:40:51 / 6:40 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/20 / 2020-05-11 06:40:51 / May 11, 2020 @ 6:40 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009jq0. Id of event: us70009jq0.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Buenavista (c. 18 700 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Libertad, Buenavista, Butuan (min 5000 pop).

Every 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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km SE of Talisay, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.6558° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.783° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	118.14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SE of Talisay, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-11 06:40:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-09 06:52:46	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	2.697	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us70009jq0	Id of event.
Event Code	70009jq0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009jq0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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