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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 19 km W of Guisijan, Philippines


Earthquake location 11.0656S, 121.87WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Guisijan in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.02 km (23 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000bcnx. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000bcnx. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:28:39 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 121.87° East, latitude 11.0656° North, depth = 37.02 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/08/20 / 2020-08-05 00:28:39 / August 5, 2020 @ 12:28 am.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Iloilo (c. 387 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kalibo (poblacion) (c. 56 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Passi (c. 42 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Pandan (c. 34 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Oton (c. 14 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Janiuay (c. 12 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barotac Nuevo, Salvacion, Jordan (min 5000 pop).

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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 19 km W of Guisijan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.87° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.0656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km W of Guisijan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-05 00:28:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-12 23:47:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 9.948 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us6000bcnx Id of event.
Event Code 6000bcnx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bcnx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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