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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 44 km ENE of Barcelona, Philippines


Earthquake location 8.316S, 126.8058WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000477y. Id of event: us7000477y. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/06/19 / 2019-06-29 08:08:27 / June 29, 2019 @ 8:08 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:08:27 / 4:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.8058 East, latitude 8.316 North, depth = 52.29 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.29 km (32 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bah-Bah, Tago, Monkayo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bunawan (c. 15 500 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 44 km ENE of Barcelona, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8058° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km ENE of Barcelona, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-29 08:08:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-29 08:25:15 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 1.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us7000477y Id of event.
Event Code 7000477y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000477y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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