Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Namuac in Philippines

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Namuac in Philippines on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.165 East, latitude 19.2734 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:29:14 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/01/16 / 2016-01-29 02:29:14 / January 29, 2016 @ 2:29 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20004vec. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004vec.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ballesteros, Cabaritan East, Claveria (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Cabaritan East (c. 9 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Ballesteros (c. 5 600 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 73 km N of Namuac, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.165° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2734° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73km N of Namuac, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-29 02:29:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-29 02:49:20	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	385	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	3.527	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	67	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	us20004vec	Id of event.
Event Code	20004vec	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004vec,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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