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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Bonawon in Philippines

Posted by admin on May 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.8275S, 122.356WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Bonawon in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.356 East, latitude 8.8275 North, depth = 29.648 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:27:00 / 2:27 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pzkv. Unique identifier: us7000pzkv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/25 / 2025-05-01 14:27:00 / May 1, 2025 @ 2:27 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.648 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mayabon, Tabuan, Nabulao (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayawan (c. 36 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santa Catalina (c. 26 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Asia (c. 23 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Manukan (c. 11 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nangka (c. 9 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Manalongon (c. 9 300 pop).

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

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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 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: 70 km WSW of Bonawon, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.356° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8275° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.648 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km WSW of Bonawon, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-01 14:27:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-17 16:19:17 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.115 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us7000pzkv Id of event.
Event Code 7000pzkv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pzkv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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