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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Pondaguitan in Philippines

Posted by admin on April 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.7453S, 127.2839WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 140 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (87 miles). Exact location, longitude 127.2839° East, latitude 5.7453° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10008gq8. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008gq8. The temblor was detected at 02:08:55 / 2:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 18:08:55 / April 11, 2017 @ 6:08 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-eight 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 140 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.2839° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.7453° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 140km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-11 18:08:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-11 18:38:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 2.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 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 us10008gq8 Id of event.
Event Code 10008gq8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008gq8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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