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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Davila in Philippines


Earthquake location 18.5153S, 120.3368WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Davila in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 03:29:59 / August 7, 2024 @ 3:29 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nigz. Unique identifier: us6000nigz. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:29:59 / 3:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.3368 East, latitude 18.5153 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Bacarra (c. 9 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Cabugao (c. 6 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cabugao, Claveria, Dingras. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km W of Davila, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.3368° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5153° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km W of Davila, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-07 03:29:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-08 01:46:52 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us6000nigz Id of event.
Event Code 6000nigz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nigz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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