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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Tarragona in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.7971S, 126.8225WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Tarragona in Philippines on Saturday. Event id: us2000jih8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jih8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/02/19 / 2019-02-15 16:20:54 / February 15, 2019 @ 4:20 pm. Exact location of event, depth 82.24 km, 126.8225° East, 6.7971° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:20:54 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 82.24 km (51 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kinablangan, Baganga, Lupon.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 49 km SE of Tarragona, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8225° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7971° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km SE of Tarragona, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-15 16:20:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-15 16:40:39 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 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 1.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us2000jih8 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jih8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jih8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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