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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.9745S, 126.6072WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 202 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines (126 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sarangani in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.76 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 20:47:40 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.6072° East, latitude 3.9745° North, depth = 49.76 km. Id of earthquake: us1000bvzz. Event ids that are associated: us1000bvzz. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/17 / 2017-12-25 12:47:40 / December 25, 2017 @ 12:47 pm.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 202 km SE of Sarangani, 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 126.6072° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.9745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 202km SE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-25 12:47:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-25 13:04:06 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 1 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 3.24 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us1000bvzz Id of event.
Event Code 1000bvzz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bvzz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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