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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Claveria in Philippines


Earthquake location 19.4192S, 121.0283WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Claveria in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.48 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 121.0283° East, latitude 19.4192° North, depth = 20.48 km. 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: 12/05/19 / 2019-05-12 08:59:53 / May 12, 2019 @ 8:59 am. The temblor was reported at 16:59:53 / 4:59 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70003k0h. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003k0h.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Claveria (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-five 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 90 km N of Claveria, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0283° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4192° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km N of Claveria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-12 08:59:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-12 09:18:05 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 3.736 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 3.382 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us70003k0h Id of event.
Event Code 70003k0h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003k0h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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