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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 73 km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines


Earthquake location 10.2596S, 126.6993WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Isidro in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 12:23:20 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.6993 East, latitude 10.2596 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us2000jng3. Id of event: us2000jng3. Global time and date of event 09/02/19 / 2019-02-09 04:23:20 / February 9, 2019 @ 4:23 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dapa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km ENE of San Isidro, 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 126.6993° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-09 04:23:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-27 23:40:04 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 14.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us2000jng3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jng3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jng3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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