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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Perez in Philippines


Earthquake location 14.3824S, 121.9759WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Perez in Philippines on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, 121.9759° East, 14.3824° North, depth 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 21:00:32 / July 5, 2018 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g2bq. Id of event: us2000g2bq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 05:00:32 / 5:00 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Cainta (c. 283 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Taytay (c. 231 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Lucena (c. 228 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Binangonan (c. 219 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cainta, Santa Rosa, Tulay na Lupa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 21 km NNE of Perez, 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 121.9759° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3824° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NNE of Perez, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-05 21:00:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-14 03:32:16 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 8.082 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 us2000g2bq Id of event.
Event Code 2000g2bq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g2bq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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