Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Philippine Islands region

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Philippine Islands region (0 miles). Exact location, longitude 127.2856° East, latitude 5.6679° North, depth = 52.76 km. Global time and date of event 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 17:41:24 / April 11, 2017 @ 5:41 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.76 km (33 miles). Unique identifier: us10008gpc. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008gpc. The temblor was reported at 17:41:24 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-seven 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Philippine Islands region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.2856° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	5.6679° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Philippine Islands region	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 17:41:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-11 17:59:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	432	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	2.194	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	us10008gpc	Id of event.
Event Code	10008gpc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008gpc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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