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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near San Nicolas in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.649S, 119.1504WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 105 kilometers (65 miles) from San Nicolas in Philippines on Friday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:00:47 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/03/20 / 2020-03-12 22:00:47 / March 12, 2020 @ 10:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 119.1504° East, 14.649° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us60008epc. Ids that are associated to the event: us60008epc.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Narciso, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 106 km (66 miles) from San Antonio (c. 34 200 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from San Narciso (c. 15 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 105 km WSW of San Nicolas, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.1504° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km WSW of San Nicolas, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-12 22:00:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-12 22:17:12 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 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 8.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us60008epc Id of event.
Event Code 60008epc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008epc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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