Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Pandan in Philippines

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Pandan in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 124.0667 East, latitude 14.5014 North, depth = 9.23 km. Unique identifier: us70008cgc. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008cgc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.23 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 19/03/20 / 2020-03-19 20:08:20 / March 19, 2020 @ 8:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:08:20 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 104 km (64 miles) from Virac (c. 15 100 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Lagonoy (c. 7 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Calatagan (c. 7 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Pandan (c. 5 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Calolbon (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lagonoy, Virac, Calatagan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 51 km NNW of Pandan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.0667° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.5014° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km NNW of Pandan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-19 20:08:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-19 20:25:48	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	7.533	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us70008cgc	Id of event.
Event Code	70008cgc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008cgc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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