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


Earthquake location 11.3308S, 126.1954WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Sulangan in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 126.1954° East, latitude 11.3308° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000ceel. Event ids that are associated: us1000ceel. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/18 / 2018-01-23 13:09:38 / January 23, 2018 @ 1:09 pm. The temblor was detected at 21:09:38 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Llorente (c. 7 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Balangiga (c. 5 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Maydolong (c. 5 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Giporlos (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Balangiga, Borongan, Giporlos (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 59 km NE of Sulangan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1954° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.3308° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km NE of Sulangan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-23 13:09:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-05 21:18:45 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 35.591 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us1000ceel Id of event.
Event Code 1000ceel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ceel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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