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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines

Posted by admin on February 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.4539S, 126.6796WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 114 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (71 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/02/20 / 2020-02-22 15:29:53 / February 22, 2020 @ 3:29 pm. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:29:53 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70007usm. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007usm. The epicenter was at a depth of 55.37 km (34 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.6796 East, latitude 5.4539 North, depth = 55.37 km.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 114 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6796° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.4539° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km 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 2020-02-22 15:29:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-22 15:42:30 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 1.942 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us70007usm Id of event.
Event Code 70007usm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007usm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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