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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 24 km NW of Santa Monica, Philippines

Posted by admin on December 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.1496S, 125.8583WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Santa Monica in Philippines on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 04:44:42 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/16 / 2016-12-19 20:44:42 / December 19, 2016 @ 8:44 pm. 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 76.37 km (47 miles). Unique identifier: us200082m1. Ids that are associated to the event: us200082m1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.8583 East, latitude 10.1496 North, depth = 76.37 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maasin, Sogod, Guiuan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Sogod (c. 8 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km NW of Santa Monica, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.8583° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.1496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NW 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 2016-12-19 20:44:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-19 21:07:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.05 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 466 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 3.072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us200082m1 Id of event.
Event Code 200082m1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200082m1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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