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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 16 km NNW of San Jose de Buan, Philippines


Earthquake location 12.1942S, 124.9744WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from San Jose de Buan in Philippines on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.7 km (30 miles). Event id: us10006a4a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006a4a. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 08:15:07 / July 31, 2016 @ 8:15 am. The temblor was reported at 16:15:07 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 124.9744° East, latitude 12.1942° North, depth = 48.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naval, Babatngon, Allen. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Catarman (c. 47 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Laoang (c. 16 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Naval (c. 12 200 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 16 km NNW of San Jose de Buan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.9744° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.1942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNW of San Jose de Buan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-31 08:15:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-28 11:18:16 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 14.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us10006a4a Id of event.
Event Code 10006a4a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006a4a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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