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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Hernani in Philippines


Earthquake location 11.3204S, 125.6961WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hernani in Philippines. Global time and date of event 14/02/19 / 2019-02-14 20:15:38 / February 14, 2019 @ 8:15 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000jnmf. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jnmf. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.8 km (17 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 125.6961 East, latitude 11.3204 North, depth = 26.8 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:15:38 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Dulag (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Alangalang, Babatngon, Dulag (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 8 km E of Hernani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6961° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.3204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km E of Hernani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-14 20:15:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-14 17:54:15 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 9.378 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us2000jnmf Id of event.
Event Code 2000jnmf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jnmf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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