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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 12 km ENE of Abuyog, Philippines


Earthquake location 10.7819S, 125.1224WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Abuyog in Philippines on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/05/24 / 2024-05-03 14:01:04 / May 3, 2024 @ 2:01 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 125.1224° East, 10.7819° North, depth 10.125 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mxi5. Unique identifier: us6000mxi5. The temblor was reported at 14:01:04 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.125 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maydolong, Esperanza, Palompon (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 12 km ENE of Abuyog, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.7819° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.125 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ENE of Abuyog, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-03 14:01:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-13 14:55:32 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 26.43 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000mxi5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mxi5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mxi5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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