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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 6 km SSW of Tingloy, Philippines


Earthquake location 13.6061S, 120.8514WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tingloy in Philippines on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.8514 East, latitude 13.6061 North, depth = 129.64 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.64 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/03/19 / 2019-03-16 09:58:20 / March 16, 2019 @ 9:58 am. The temblor was detected at 17:58:20 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jh0j. Id of event: us1000jh0j.

The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Mandaluyong City (c. 305 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from San Pedro (c. 270 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangil, Mandaluyong City, Mabitac (min 5000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 6 km SSW of Tingloy, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.8514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6061° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW of Tingloy, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-16 09:58:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-16 10:19:04 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 3.644 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 7.987 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us1000jh0j Id of event.
Event Code 1000jh0j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jh0j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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