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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Claveria in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Claveria in Philippines. Exact location of event, depth 24.47 km, 121.0641° East, 18.7458° North. The temblor was picked up at 23:46:42 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.47 km (15 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 15:46:42 / July 18, 2015 @ 3:46 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002ye0. Id of event: us20002ye0.

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Laoag (c. 102 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Batac City (c. 53 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Nicolas (c. 34 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Magapit, Aguiguican (c. 13 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Magapit (c. 11 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Magapit, Aguiguican, Lasam, Batac City (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 15 km N of Claveria, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.0641° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7458° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km N of Claveria, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-18 15:46:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-18 16:05:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	432	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	1.321	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us20002ye0	Id of event.
Event Code	20002ye0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002ye0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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