Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ilioilio in Philippines

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Ilioilio in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70003hjv. Event ids that are associated: us70003hjv. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/19 / 2019-04-26 23:14:09 / April 26, 2019 @ 11:14 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:14:09 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 119.1792 East, latitude 15.5718 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iba, Amuñgan, Masinloc. Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Masinloc (c. 28 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Iba (c. 26 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 26 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Amuñgan (c. 12 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lucapon (c. 5 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Taltal (c. 5 400 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 76 km SW of Ilioilio, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.1792° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.5718° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	76km SW of Ilioilio, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-04-26 23:14:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-10 23:15:56	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	9.905	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us70003hjv	Id of event.
Event Code	70003hjv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003hjv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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