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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near San Ignacio in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.7968S, 127.1617WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from San Ignacio in Philippines on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mx99. Unique identifier: us7000mx99. The temblor was picked up at 14:22:00 / 2:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.155 km (39 miles). Exact location, longitude 127.1617° East, latitude 6.7968° North, depth = 62.155 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/24 / 2024-06-29 14:22:00 / June 29, 2024 @ 2:22 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manay, San Ignacio (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Ignacio (c. 6 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 82 km ESE of San Ignacio, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1617° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7968° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.155 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82 km ESE of San Ignacio, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-29 14:22:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-20 20:56:54 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.594 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us7000mx99 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mx99 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mx99, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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