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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Mangili in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.8167S, 126.0777WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Mangili in Philippines. Unique identifier: us20009pmw. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009pmw. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/17 / 2017-06-25 19:45:15 / June 25, 2017 @ 7:45 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 119.52 km (74 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:45:15 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 119.52 km, 126.0777° East, 5.8167° North.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baliton, Sigaboy, Alabel (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 48 km ESE of Mangili, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0777° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.8167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 119.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km ESE of Mangili, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-25 19:45:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-25 20:05:55 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 1.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us20009pmw Id of event.
Event Code 20009pmw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009pmw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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