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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Caburan in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Caburan in Philippines on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 123.9 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000ai20. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ai20. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:21:30 / 8:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/07/20 / 2020-07-04 20:21:30 / July 4, 2020 @ 8:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 125.9462 East, latitude 5.7565 North, depth = 123.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was General Santos, Maluñgun, Katangawan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 38 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.9462° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.7565° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	123.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-04 20:21:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-04 21:14:00	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	1.354	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 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	us7000ai20	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ai20	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ai20,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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