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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Pilar in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.8479S, 126.2732WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Pilar in Philippines. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/21 / 2021-01-22 07:59:16 / January 22, 2021 @ 7:59 am. The temblor was picked up at 07:59:16 / 7:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 126.2732° East, 9.8479° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000dcy2. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dcy2.

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tago, Mainit, Kitcharao (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km E of Pilar, 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 126.2732° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.8479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km E of Pilar, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-22 07:59:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-04 07:23:07 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 2.844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us6000dcy2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dcy2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dcy2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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