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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Casuguran in Philippines

Posted by admin on September 4, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.8461S, 122.6003WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Casuguran in Philippines on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 122.6003° East, latitude 14.8461° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000npkt. Event ids that are associated: us6000npkt. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:55:46 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/09/24 / 2024-09-03 23:55:46 / September 3, 2024 @ 11:55 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Daet (c. 78 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Jose Pañganiban (c. 21 200 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Calauag (c. 20 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Labo (c. 18 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mercedes (c. 17 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 14 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vinzons (c. 13 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calauag, Alabat, Quezon.

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km ENE of Casuguran, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.6003° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.8461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km ENE of Casuguran, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-03 23:55:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-04 00:12:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 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 78 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.058 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us6000npkt Id of event.
Event Code 6000npkt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000npkt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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