Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Uyugan in Philippines

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Uyugan in Philippines. Event id: us70008wgi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008wgi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 02:01:06 / April 15, 2020 @ 2:01 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:01:06 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 122.0737° East, latitude 19.9735° North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 44 km SSE of Uyugan, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.0737° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.9735° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km SSE of Uyugan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-15 02:01:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-15 02:18:11	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	2.977	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us70008wgi	Id of event.
Event Code	70008wgi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008wgi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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