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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.1759S, 127.4583WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 193 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (120 miles) on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 10/04/17 / 2017-04-10 16:06:44 / April 10, 2017 @ 4:06 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 127.4583 East, latitude 5.1759 North, depth = 82.07 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008im1. Unique identifier: us10008im1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:06:44 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 82.07 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 193 km SE of Pondaguitan, 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 127.4583° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.1759° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 193km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-10 16:06:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-24 15:16:35 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 2.651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us10008im1 Id of event.
Event Code 10008im1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008im1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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