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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Socorro in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.5305S, 126.1643WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Socorro in Philippines on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us70006yps. Event ids that are associated: us70006yps. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 10:53:45 / January 12, 2020 @ 10:53 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:53:45 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.1643 East, latitude 9.5305 North, depth = 28.87 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.87 km (18 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Buenavista (c. 18 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tungao, Buenavista, Lianga (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 23 km ESE of Socorro, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1643° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.5305° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ESE of Socorro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 10:53:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-12 11:13:12 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 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 2.512 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us70006yps Id of event.
Event Code 70006yps An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006yps, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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