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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Dicamay in Philippines


Earthquake location 16.6012S, 122.0779WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Dicamay in Philippines on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002xcu. Unique identifier: us10002xcu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:06:10 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 122.0779 East, latitude 16.6012 North, depth = 33.19 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.19 km (21 miles). Global time and date of event 23/07/15 / 2015-07-23 22:06:10 / July 23, 2015 @ 10:06 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Santiago (c. 108 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ilagan (c. 72 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ramon (c. 36 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Alicia (c. 24 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Roxas (c. 16 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Mateo (c. 16 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quezon, Quezon, San Jose. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km SSE of Dicamay, 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 122.0779° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSE of Dicamay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-23 22:06:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-02 22:00:36 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 1.817 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us10002xcu Id of event.
Event Code 10002xcu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002xcu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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