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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Putol in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9853S, 120.7524WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Putol in Philippines on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000avnl. Unique identifier: us1000avnl. The temblor was detected at 22:21:00 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 203.25 km (126 miles). Global time and date of event 22/10/17 / 2017-10-22 14:21:00 / October 22, 2017 @ 2:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 120.7524 East, latitude 13.9853 North, depth = 203.25 km.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cagsiay, Guagua, Bustos (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 2 km ESE of Putol, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.7524° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 203.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ESE of Putol, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-22 14:21:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-22 14:39:29 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 449 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 8.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000avnl Id of event.
Event Code 1000avnl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000avnl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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