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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.2268S, 126.5293WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 119 km E of Sarangani, Philippines (74 miles) on Sunday. Event id: us1000hf1u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hf1u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 87.32 km (54 miles). Exact location, longitude 126.5293° East, latitude 5.2268° North, depth = 87.32 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/10/18 / 2018-10-20 18:51:58 / October 20, 2018 @ 6:51 pm. The temblor was picked up at 02:51:58 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 119 km E of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5293° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.2268° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km E 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 2018-10-20 18:51:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-20 19:10:54 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 432 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 2.06 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 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 us1000hf1u Id of event.
Event Code 1000hf1u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hf1u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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