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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near San Luis in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from San Luis in Philippines. Global time and date of event 23/05/20 / 2020-05-23 02:10:27 / May 23, 2020 @ 2:10 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.68 km (30 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009nx5. Unique identifier: us70009nx5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 121.6175° East, 15.6098° North, depth 47.68 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:10:27 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bustos, Arayat, Tayug (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Cabanatuan City (c. 220 300 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Arayat (c. 88 000 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Norzagaray (c. 79 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Gapan (c. 79 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Antonio (c. 67 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Ildefonso (c. 65 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from San Miguel (c. 65 700 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 16 km SE of San Luis, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6175° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.6098° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km SE of San Luis, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-23 02:10:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-23 02:27:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	386	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	7.188	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us70009nx5	Id of event.
Event Code	70009nx5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009nx5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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