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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Basco in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.3289S, 122.2198WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Basco in Philippines. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.25 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bff2. Id of event: us6000bff2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/08/20 / 2020-08-16 02:53:05 / August 16, 2020 @ 2:53 am. The temblor was detected at 02:53:05 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.2198 East, latitude 20.3289 North, depth = 13.25 km.

The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 29 km ESE of Basco, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.2198° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.3289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km ESE of Basco, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-16 02:53:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-16 03:37:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 2.694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us6000bff2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bff2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bff2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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