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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Mindanao, Philippines

Posted by admin on December 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.6663S, 125.6618WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes Mindanao, Philippines kilometers (0 miles) from Mindanao, Philippines on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000i3i6. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000i3i6. The temblor was reported at 14:13:43 / 2:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/18 / 2018-12-06 14:13:43 / December 6, 2018 @ 2:13 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 185.13 km (115 miles). Exact location, longitude 125.6618° East, latitude 6.6663° North, depth = 185.13 km.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacurong, Dahay, Santo Niño. Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.6618° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.6663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 185.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Mindanao, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-06 14:13:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-06 14:34:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.409 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us1000i3i6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000i3i6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i3i6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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