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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Aurora in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.6545S, 125.8475WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Aurora in Philippines on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 125.8475° East, 8.6545° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/16 / 2016-07-08 23:16:44 / July 8, 2016 @ 11:16 pm. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:16:44 / 7:16 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000622e. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000622e.

Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Mariano (c. 70 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Malaybalay (c. 61 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sumilao, Claveria, Mainit. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 6 km N of Aurora, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.8475° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.6545° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km N of Aurora, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-08 23:16:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-08 23:35:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 417 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 1.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us1000622e Id of event.
Event Code 1000622e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000622e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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