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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Luna in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Luna in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.32 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/16 / 2016-07-26 14:29:08 / July 26, 2016 @ 2:29 pm. Id of earthquake: us20006hs4. Event ids that are associated: us20006hs4. Exact location of earthquake, 125.5224° East, 9.7309° North, depth 10.32 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:29:08 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Buenavista (c. 18 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Medina, Tungao, Bato (min 5000 pop).

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-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 2 km E of Luna, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.5224° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.7309° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km E of Luna, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-26 14:29:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-26 14:58:14	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	3.8	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	2.644	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us20006hs4	Id of event.
Event Code	20006hs4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006hs4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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