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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Cagwait in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Cagwait in Philippines on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 20:53:16 / July 16, 2015 @ 8:53 pm. Exact location of event, depth 32 km, 126.799° East, 9.1345° North. Id of earthquake: us20002y0b. Event ids that are associated: us20002y0b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:53:16 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dapa, Socorro, Tagbina (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lianga (c. 13 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Tagbina (c. 10 700 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Hinatuan (c. 10 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Barobo (c. 9 900 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 59 km ENE of Cagwait, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.799° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.1345° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km ENE of Cagwait, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-16 20:53:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-16 21:10:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	416	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	2.38	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us20002y0b	Id of event.
Event Code	20002y0b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002y0b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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