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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 145 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines

Posted by admin on April 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.779S, 127.3523WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 145 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (90 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:55:49 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10008gmw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008gmw. Exact location of event, longitude 127.3523 East, latitude 5.779 North, depth = 18.23 km. Global time and date of event 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 15:55:49 / April 11, 2017 @ 3:55 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 18.23 km (11 miles).

Every 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 seven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 145 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.3523° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.779° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145km 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 15:55:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-11 18:54:09 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 2.179 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 75 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 us10008gmw Id of event.
Event Code 10008gmw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008gmw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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