Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Barcelona in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.774 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000n8m8. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n8m8. Exact location of event, depth 79.774 km, 126.5168° East, 8.1657° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/08/24 / 2024-08-03 00:36:07 / August 3, 2024 @ 12:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:36:07 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Mariano, San Luis, Andop.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-three, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km E of Barcelona, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.5168° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.1657° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	79.774 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km E of Barcelona, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-03 00:36:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-29 03:39:19	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.432	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us7000n8m8	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n8m8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n8m8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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