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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 14 km NNW of Santa Monica, Philippines

Posted by admin on August 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.132S, 125.9632WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Santa Monica in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 97.61 km (61 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:53:25 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/08/16 / 2016-08-26 15:53:25 / August 26, 2016 @ 3:53 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.9632 East, latitude 10.132 North, depth = 97.61 km. Id of earthquake: us20006uar. Event ids that are associated: us20006uar.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guiuan, Cantilan, Kitcharao (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 14 km NNW of Santa Monica, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9632° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.132° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNW of Santa Monica, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-26 15:53:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 16:09:48 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 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 400 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 3.066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us20006uar Id of event.
Event Code 20006uar An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006uar, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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