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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Palimbang in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.2404S, 123.8009WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 115 km SSW of Palimbang, Philippines (71 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/15 / 2015-09-26 17:23:26 / September 26, 2015 @ 5:23 pm. Unique identifier: us20003pci. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003pci. Exact location of event, depth 519.99 km, 123.8009° East, 5.2404° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 519.99 km (323 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:23:26 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 115 km SSW of Palimbang, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.8009° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.2404° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 519.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km SSW of Palimbang, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-26 17:23:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-26 17:48:35 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 2.535 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 31 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 us20003pci Id of event.
Event Code 20003pci An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003pci, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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