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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near San Francisco in Philippines


Earthquake location 13.754S, 122.371WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Francisco in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/02/16 / 2016-02-05 05:28:24 / February 5, 2016 @ 5:28 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004z1j. Unique identifier: us20004z1j. The temblor was picked up at 13:28:24 / 1:28 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 122.371° East, 13.754° North, depth 10 km.

The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Naga (c. 174 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Daet (c. 78 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Sariaya (c. 45 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Pagbilao (c. 40 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Tayabas (c. 37 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Janagdong, Sariaya, Guisguis. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ESE of San Francisco, 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 122.371° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.754° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ESE of San Francisco, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-05 05:28:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-28 11:07:23 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 9.097 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us20004z1j Id of event.
Event Code 20004z1j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004z1j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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