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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near San Isidro in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.5342S, 126.8383WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 101 km NE of San Isidro, Philippines (63 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 126.8383° East, 10.5342° North, depth 23.85 km. The temblor was detected at 02:57:26 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20008mfc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008mfc. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.85 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/17 / 2017-02-25 18:57:26 / February 25, 2017 @ 6:57 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 101 km NE of San Isidro, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8383° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km NE of San Isidro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-25 18:57:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-25 19:13:06 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 3.66 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 80 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 us20008mfc Id of event.
Event Code 20008mfc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008mfc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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