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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Siocon in Philippines


Earthquake location 7.7922S, 122.0093WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Siocon in Philippines. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:20:36 / 2:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.94 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/01/21 / 2021-01-07 02:20:36 / January 7, 2021 @ 2:20 am. Exact location, longitude 122.0093° East, latitude 7.7922° North, depth = 34.94 km. Event id: us7000d0db. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d0db. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mercedes, Recodo, Katipunan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Recodo (c. 42 800 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Ipil (c. 19 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Sangali (c. 14 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Labuan (c. 12 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Titay (c. 11 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Katipunan (c. 10 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 16 km NW of Siocon, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.0093° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.7922° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km NW of Siocon, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-07 02:20:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-22 03:46:24 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 8.808 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us7000d0db Id of event.
Event Code 7000d0db An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d0db, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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