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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on July 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 4.6706S, 125.0616WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 125.0616 East, latitude 4.6706 North, depth = 26.54 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.54 km (16 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000gbc5. Event ids that are associated: us2000gbc5. The temblor was reported at 02:28:42 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sarangani in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/18 / 2018-07-22 18:28:42 / July 22, 2018 @ 6:28 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sarangani. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 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: 92 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0616° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.6706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km SSW 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 2018-07-22 18:28:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-22 18:44:11 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 416 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 2.438 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us2000gbc5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gbc5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gbc5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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