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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 13 km SE of Santa Maria, Philippines

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Earthquake location 7.9161S, 126.5453WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mu0i. Unique identifier: us6000mu0i. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/04/24 / 2024-04-20 05:39:17 / April 20, 2024 @ 5:39 am. The temblor was detected at 05:39:17 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.5453 East, latitude 7.9161 North, depth = 91.271 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91.271 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lianga, San Ignacio, New Corella. Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from New Corella (c. 20 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km SE of Santa Maria, 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 126.5453° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.9161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.271 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km SE of Santa Maria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-20 05:39:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-08 04:52:41 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.275 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us6000mu0i Id of event.
Event Code 6000mu0i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mu0i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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