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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 31 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.0785S, 126.14WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 08:34:01 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). 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: us7000nskr. Unique identifier: us7000nskr. Exact location, longitude 126.14° East, latitude 6.0785° North, depth = 98.377 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/24 / 2024-11-19 08:34:01 / November 19, 2024 @ 8:34 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 98.377 km (61 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pangyan, Malandag, Katangawan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Lupon (c. 27 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 16 800 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-three 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km S of Pondaguitan, 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 126.14° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.377 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km S of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-19 08:34:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-19 08:51:46 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 92 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us7000nskr Id of event.
Event Code 7000nskr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nskr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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