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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near General Luna in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.7866S, 126.1768WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 04:14:10 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.1768° East, latitude 9.7866° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/19 / 2019-02-08 20:14:10 / February 8, 2019 @ 8:14 pm. Event id: us2000jnfa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jnfa.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabadbaran, Aras-asan, Tubay (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days eighty-three 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km E of General Luna, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1768° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7866° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km E of General Luna, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-08 20:14:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-02 18:54:25 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 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 2.763 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us2000jnfa Id of event.
Event Code 2000jnfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jnfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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