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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Lambayong in Philippines

Posted by admin on October 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.5884S, 125.0483WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Lambayong in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/10/19 / 2019-10-20 08:55:32 / October 20, 2019 @ 8:55 am. Unique identifier: us70005w9m. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005w9m. Exact location, longitude 125.0483° East, latitude 6.5884° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:55:32 / 4:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Banisilan, Panabo, Puloypuloy (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 96 km (60 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km N of Lambayong, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0483° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.5884° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km N of Lambayong, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-20 08:55:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-20 09:11:20 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 416 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 0.711 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us70005w9m Id of event.
Event Code 70005w9m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005w9m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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