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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near General Luna in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.6568S, 126.5471WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003fn4. Unique identifier: us70003fn4. The epicenter was at a depth of 113.58 km (71 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/19 / 2019-05-02 11:34:12 / May 2, 2019 @ 11:34 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:34:12 / 7:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.5471° East, latitude 9.6568° North, depth = 113.58 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Claver, Aras-asan, Tago (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 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 sixteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 44 km ESE of General Luna, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5471° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.6568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km ESE of General Luna, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-02 11:34:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-02 12:48:00 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 2.743 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us70003fn4 Id of event.
Event Code 70003fn4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003fn4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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