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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 33 km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.0631S, 126.7402WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 79.657 km (49 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/04/24 / 2024-04-19 11:05:00 / April 19, 2024 @ 11:05 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000md44. Unique identifier: us7000md44. Exact location of earthquake, 126.7402° East, 8.0631° North, depth 79.657 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:05:00 / 11:05 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Montevista, Cabinuangan, Veruela. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Bunawan (c. 15 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7402° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.0631° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.657 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km ENE 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 2024-04-19 11:05:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-29 13:01:05 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.516 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us7000md44 Id of event.
Event Code 7000md44 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000md44, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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