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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.1708S, 126.7037WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 193 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines (120 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sarangani in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:35:10 / 2:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.7037° East, 4.1708° North, depth 43.26 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000c1hr. Unique identifier: us1000c1hr. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/18 / 2018-01-06 18:35:10 / January 6, 2018 @ 6:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.26 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 193 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7037° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.1708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 193km 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 2018-01-06 18:35:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-06 18:52:35 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 3.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us1000c1hr Id of event.
Event Code 1000c1hr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c1hr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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