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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Patique in Philippines


Earthquake location 10.2153S, 122.8806WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Patique in Philippines. Unique identifier: us6000afzj. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000afzj. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:02:04 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 122.8806° East, 10.2153° North, depth 92.03 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/06/20 / 2020-06-21 17:02:04 / June 21, 2020 @ 5:02 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 92.03 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Bacolod City (c. 454 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mansilingan (c. 454 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Iloilo (c. 387 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Toledo (c. 156 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Bago City (c. 150 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kabankalan (c. 136 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayawan, Maninihon, Buanoy. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SW of Patique, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.8806° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2153° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km SW of Patique, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-21 17:02:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-21 17:21:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 300 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 4.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us6000afzj Id of event.
Event Code 6000afzj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000afzj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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