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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 24 km SW of Sangay, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.2785S, 123.8955WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Sangay in Philippines on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.8955 East, latitude 6.2785 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 20:02:50 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006jn0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006jn0. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 12:02:50 / September 2, 2016 @ 12:02 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Isulan (c. 31 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Surallah (c. 31 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Laguilayan (c. 17 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Maganoy (c. 17 400 pop). 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 Awang, Sampao, Lambo.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 24 km SW of Sangay, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 123.8955° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.2785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SW of Sangay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-02 12:02:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-02 12:18:15 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 385 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 1.847 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10006jn0 Id of event.
Event Code 10006jn0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006jn0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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