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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.0695S, 126.5686WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 191 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines (119 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/09/20 / 2020-09-09 08:04:00 / September 9, 2020 @ 8:04 am. Unique identifier: us7000bn2h. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bn2h. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:04:00 / 8:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5686 East, latitude 4.0695 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-three 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 191 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5686° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.0695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 191 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-09 08:04:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-16 05:45:05 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 3.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us7000bn2h Id of event.
Event Code 7000bn2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bn2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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