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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Bagontapay in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.833S, 125.0067WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Bagontapay in Philippines. Event id: us70004ggm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004ggm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 00:56:36 / July 10, 2019 @ 12:56 am. Exact location, longitude 125.0067° East, latitude 6.833° North, depth = 18.34 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.34 km (11 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:56:36 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pandasan, Sapu Padidu, Corocotan. Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixteen 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. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km ESE of Bagontapay, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0067° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ESE of Bagontapay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-10 00:56:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 01:13:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 400 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 0.615 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 48 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 us70004ggm Id of event.
Event Code 70004ggm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004ggm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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