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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near San Francisco in Philippines

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from San Francisco in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 25.675 km (16 miles). Exact location of event, depth 25.675 km, 125.3038° East, 10.1387° North. Unique identifier: us6000plql. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000plql. The temblor was reported at 23:39:48 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/25 / 2025-01-22 23:39:48 / January 22, 2025 @ 11:39 pm.

The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 116 km (72 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 118 km (74 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Burauen (c. 14 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palo, Mambajao, Cantilan (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km ENE of San Francisco, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.3038° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.1387° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.675 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ENE of San Francisco, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-22 23:39:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-22 23:58:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.233	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	522	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	102	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.061	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 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	us6000plql	Id of event.
Event Code	6000plql	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000plql,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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