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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Bobon in Philippines on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 130.205 km (81 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000n8r2. Event ids that are associated: us7000n8r2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/08/24 / 2024-08-22 12:04:53 / August 22, 2024 @ 12:04 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:04:53 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 124.4868° East, 12.4713° North, depth 130.205 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Sorsogon (c. 82 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Masbate (c. 47 500 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bulan (c. 28 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cumadcad, Masbate, Placer. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km SW of Bobon, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.4868° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.4713° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	130.205 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km SW of Bobon, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-22 12:04:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-17 09:49:49	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.474	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us7000n8r2	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n8r2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n8r2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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