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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 12 km ENE of Santa Monica, Philippines


Earthquake location 10.0559S, 126.1438WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Santa Monica in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 126.1438° East, 10.0559° North, depth 65.113 km. Event id: us6000n9tu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n9tu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.113 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:32:47 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/24 / 2024-07-02 15:32:47 / July 2, 2024 @ 3:32 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitcharao, Alegria, Mainit. Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kitcharao (c. 7 200 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km ENE of Santa Monica, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1438° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.0559° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65.113 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ENE of Santa Monica, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-02 15:32:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-02 16:06:21 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 127 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000n9tu Id of event.
Event Code 6000n9tu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n9tu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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