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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Agoo in Philippines


Earthquake location 16.0818S, 120.0693WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Agoo in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 16:51:20 / June 13, 2016 @ 4:51 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us200065if. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200065if. The temblor was reported at 00:51:20 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.0693 East, latitude 16.0818 North, depth = 67.97 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67.97 km (42 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Balingcanaway, Kibungan, San Manuel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Baguio (c. 272 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Tarlac City (c. 183 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Urdaneta (c. 101 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Fernando (c. 83 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Manaoag (c. 59 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km W of Agoo, Philippines. This data 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 120.0693° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.0818° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W of Agoo, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-13 16:51:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-06 17:09:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us200065if Id of event.
Event Code 200065if An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065if, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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