Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Catmon in Philippines

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Catmon in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 14:05:05 / August 13, 2016 @ 2:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.45 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:05:05 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006dkr. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006dkr. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.4526 East, latitude 11.5241 North, depth = 38.45 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abuyog, Lipayran, Catmon. Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Calbayog City (c. 67 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bogo (c. 23 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bantayan (c. 19 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km E of Catmon, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.4526° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.5241° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km E of Catmon, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-13 14:05:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-13 14:19:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	401	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	8.628	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us10006dkr	Id of event.
Event Code	10006dkr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006dkr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.1 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

124.4526° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

11.5241° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

38.45 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

3km E of Catmon, Philippines

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2016-08-13 14:05:05

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-08-13 14:19:59

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

480

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

2.7

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

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

401

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

8.628

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.72 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10006dkr

Id of event.

Event Code

10006dkr

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10006dkr,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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