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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Del Carmen in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.9077S, 125.9456WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) was reported Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Del Carmen in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 20:37:33 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 128.58 km (80 miles). Global time of event 10/05/15 / 2015-05-10 12:37:33 / May 10, 2015 @ 12:37 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 125.9456 East, latitude 9.9077 North, depth 128.58 km, unique identifier, us20002e72.

Close countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Tubay (c. 7 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tubay, Loreto, Kitcharao.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9456° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.9077° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNW of Del Carmen, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-10 12:37:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-10 13:00:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.843 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us20002e72 Id of event.
Event Code 20002e72 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002e72, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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