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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 6 km ESE of Tingloy, Philippines


Earthquake location 13.6387S, 120.9304WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tingloy in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 120.9304 East, latitude 13.6387 North, depth = 124.404 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvtw. Id of event: us6000mvtw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 19:28:52 / May 2, 2024 @ 7:28 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:28:52 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 124.404 km (77 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cavite City, Gloria, Lumbang (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two 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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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: 6 km ESE of Tingloy, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9304° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6387° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.404 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km ESE of Tingloy, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-02 19:28:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-02 19:51:55 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.969 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us6000mvtw Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvtw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvtw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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