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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Columbio in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.7645S, 125.0279WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Columbio in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us70005xmt. Event ids that are associated: us70005xmt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 125.0279 East, latitude 6.7645 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 18:22:18 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/10/19 / 2019-10-23 10:22:18 / October 23, 2019 @ 10:22 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dalumangcob, Panabo, Kadingilan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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: 12 km NE of Columbio, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0279° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7645° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NE of Columbio, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-23 10:22:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-23 12:34:02 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 0.625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us70005xmt Id of event.
Event Code 70005xmt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005xmt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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