Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Namuac in Philippines

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Namuac in Philippines on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/07/24 / 2024-07-06 10:29:31 / July 6, 2024 @ 10:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mxek. Unique identifier: us7000mxek. The temblor was detected at 10:29:31 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.569 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 121.1783° East, 19.2452° North, depth 16.569 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aparri, Ballesteros, Cabaritan East (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) from Aparri (c. 33 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Claveria (c. 10 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Cabaritan East (c. 9 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ballesteros (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

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

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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: 70 km N of Namuac, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.1783° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2452° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.569 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km N of Namuac, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-06 10:29:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-06 10:51:12	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	5.066	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	465	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	90	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.556	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	us7000mxek	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mxek	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mxek,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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