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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Alabel in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.0879S, 125.3201WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Alabel in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 17:08:24 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006btr. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006btr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 91.93 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/08/16 / 2016-08-06 09:08:24 / August 6, 2016 @ 9:08 am. Exact location of earthquake, 125.3201° East, 6.0879° North, depth 91.93 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bialong, La Union, Laguilayan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 105 km (66 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop). Close 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 one and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every 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. 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: 3 km ESE of Alabel, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.3201° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0879° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 91.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ESE of Alabel, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-06 09:08:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-06 09:29:02 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 450 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 1.008 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us10006btr Id of event.
Event Code 10006btr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006btr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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