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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Union in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Union in Philippines on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.666 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 16:06:15 / April 16, 2024 @ 4:06 pm. Exact location, longitude 126.2537° East, latitude 9.6873° North, depth = 51.666 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:06:15 / 4:06 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000mcg7. Event ids that are associated: us7000mcg7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cabadbaran, Tubay, Aras-asan (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km ESE of Union, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.2537° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.6873° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.666 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ESE of Union, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-16 16:06:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-15 15:44:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.7	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	387	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	217	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.685	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	20	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	us7000mcg7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mcg7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mcg7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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