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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Salcedo in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Salcedo in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bmmi. Id of event: us1000bmmi. Exact location, longitude 125.7115° East, latitude 11.1753° North, depth = 41.78 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:48:22 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 02:48:22 / December 6, 2017 @ 2:48 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 41.78 km (26 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jaro, Dolores, Babatngon. Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Burauen (c. 14 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 5 km ENE of Salcedo, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.7115° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.1753° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km ENE of Salcedo, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-06 02:48:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-06 03:16:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	386	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	4.081	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us1000bmmi	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bmmi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bmmi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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