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Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag strikes near Tabiauan in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.4593S, 122.6072WA earthquake magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 190 km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines (118 miles). Exact location, longitude 122.6072° East, latitude 4.4593° North, depth = 629.52 km. Global time and date of event 10/01/17 / 2017-01-10 06:13:48 / January 10, 2017 @ 6:13 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tabiauan in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 629.52 km (391 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10007s9c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ojjvz0, us10007s9c. The temblor was detected at 14:13:48 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 190 km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.6072° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.4593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 629.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 190km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-10 06:13:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-10 06:32:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.03 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 1 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 738 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 ,at,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 3.792 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 18 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007s9c Id of event.
Event Code 10007s9c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ojjvz0,us10007s9c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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