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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Dacudao in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.2752S, 125.4888WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Dacudao in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 125.4888° East, 7.2752° North, depth 61.47 km. The temblor was reported at 01:32:49 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/08/19 / 2019-08-06 17:32:49 / August 6, 2019 @ 5:32 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.47 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us600054ze. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600054ze.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sigaboy, Linabo, Bau (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Valencia (c. 83 600 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km NNE of Dacudao, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.4888° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.2752° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNE of Dacudao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-06 17:32:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-02 19:57:06 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 0.222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us600054ze Id of event.
Event Code 600054ze An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600054ze, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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