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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near General Luna in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.7954S, 126.503WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.68 km (39 miles). Id of earthquake: us70003cb0. Event ids that are associated: us70003cb0. Global time and date of event 26/04/19 / 2019-04-26 06:04:27 / April 26, 2019 @ 6:04 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 126.503° East, 9.7954° North, depth 62.68 km. The temblor was reported at 14:04:27 / 2:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aras-asan, Placer, Bacuag (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 37 km E of General Luna, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.503° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7954° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km 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 2019-04-26 06:04:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-26 06:22:31 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 2.858 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us70003cb0 Id of event.
Event Code 70003cb0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003cb0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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