Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 1 km ESE of Labungan, Philippines


Earthquake location 7.0965S, 124.2461WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Labungan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/02/17 / 2017-02-11 09:04:37 / February 11, 2017 @ 9:04 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 52.68 km (33 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008lg8. Id of event: us20008lg8. The temblor was detected at 17:04:37 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 124.2461 East, latitude 7.0965 North, depth = 52.68 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dahay, Koronadal, Kidapawan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel the quake?

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: 1 km ESE of Labungan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.2461° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.0965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km ESE of Labungan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-11 09:04:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-09 06:07:35 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 1.323 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us20008lg8 Id of event.
Event Code 20008lg8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008lg8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply