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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Caburan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.5254S, 126.3635WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Caburan in Philippines on Sunday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:19:04 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000dfc2. Unique identifier: us6000dfc2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/21 / 2021-02-07 11:19:04 / February 7, 2021 @ 11:19 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95.84 km (60 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 126.3635° East, 5.5254° North, depth 95.84 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 91 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3635° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.5254° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km ESE of Caburan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-07 11:19:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-07 11:45:57 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 1.721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us6000dfc2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dfc2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dfc2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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