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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines

Posted by admin on December 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.3638S, 126.7713WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 128 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (80 miles). Unique identifier: us60006mdf. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006mdf. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/19 / 2019-12-05 12:24:45 / December 5, 2019 @ 12:24 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 60.98 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 20:24:45 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.7713 East, latitude 5.3638 North, depth = 60.98 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 128 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7713° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.3638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 128km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-05 12:24:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-05 12:42:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.639 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 465 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 2.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us60006mdf Id of event.
Event Code 60006mdf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006mdf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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