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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Barcelona in Philippines

Posted by admin on August 3, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.1704S, 126.7644WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 04:20:26 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.394 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/08/24 / 2024-08-03 04:20:26 / August 3, 2024 @ 4:20 am. 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: us6000nht0. Id of event: us6000nht0. Exact location of event, longitude 126.7644 East, latitude 8.1704 North, depth = 16.394 km.

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tandag, San Luis, Andop (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km E of Barcelona, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7644° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.1704° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.394 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km E of Barcelona, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-03 04:20:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-03 04:40:34 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 536 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 110 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.605 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 32 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 us6000nht0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nht0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nht0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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