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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Puro Pinget in Philippines


Earthquake location 17.6944S, 119.5562WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Puro Pinget in Philippines on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nzzc. Id of event: us7000nzzc. Exact location of earthquake, 119.5562° East, 17.6944° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 19/12/24 / 2024-12-19 06:55:00 / December 19, 2024 @ 6:55 am UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:55:00 / 6:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabugao, Bantay, Vigan. Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bantay (c. 10 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Cabugao (c. 6 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 85 km W of Puro Pinget, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.5562° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.6944° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 km W of Puro Pinget, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-19 06:55:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-19 07:11:26 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us7000nzzc Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzzc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzzc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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