Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Naval in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Naval in Philippines on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 124.3566° East, latitude 11.5462° North, depth = 50.2 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:28:43 / 4:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000bzl2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000bzl2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/20 / 2020-09-16 04:28:43 / September 16, 2020 @ 4:28 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.2 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alegria, Esperanza, Tanauan. Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Bogo (c. 23 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bantayan (c. 19 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 4 km WSW of Naval, 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	124.3566° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.5462° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km WSW of Naval, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-16 04:28:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-06 23:17:46	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	4.608	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125	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	us6000bzl2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bzl2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bzl2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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