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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 3 km SSE of Rosario, Philippines

Posted by admin on September 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.3609S, 126.0149WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Rosario in Philippines. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:54:22 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006mlv. Id of event: us10006mlv. 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 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/09/16 / 2016-09-07 04:54:22 / September 7, 2016 @ 4:54 am. Exact location of event, longitude 126.0149 East, latitude 8.3609 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Malaybalay (c. 61 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tubay, Nasipit, Tagum.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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 SSE of Rosario, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.0149° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.3609° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE of Rosario, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-07 04:54:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-07 05:08:26 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 1.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us10006mlv Id of event.
Event Code 10006mlv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006mlv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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