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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 23 km ENE of Tandag, Philippines


Earthquake location 9.1573S, 126.4005WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Tandag in Philippines on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/20 / 2020-11-11 17:07:27 / November 11, 2020 @ 5:07 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 63.05 km (39 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cfm9. Unique identifier: us7000cfm9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:07:27 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.4005 East, latitude 9.1573 North, depth = 63.05 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hinatuan, Claver, Taligaman (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 23 km ENE of Tandag, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.4005° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.1573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km ENE of Tandag, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-11 17:07:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-17 16:51:45 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 2.227 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us7000cfm9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cfm9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cfm9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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