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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Magsaysay in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.703S, 125.1716WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Magsaysay in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.91 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:49:54 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.1716 East, latitude 6.703 North, depth = 14.91 km. Global time and date of event 15/12/19 / 2019-12-15 07:49:54 / December 15, 2019 @ 7:49 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us60006rpx. Unique identifier: us60006rpx.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pigcawayan, Kadingilan, New Visayas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop).

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

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1716° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km S of Magsaysay, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-15 07:49:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-15 08:28:10 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 0.544 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us60006rpx Id of event.
Event Code 60006rpx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006rpx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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