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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Santa Maria in Philippines

Posted by admin on March 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.0813S, 126.7544WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Santa Maria in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us6000pzc5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pzc5. Exact location of event, longitude 126.7544 East, latitude 8.0813 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 17/03/25 / 2025-03-17 15:41:51 / March 17, 2025 @ 3:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 15:41:51 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Mariano, Patin-ay, Aras-asan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Veruela (c. 18 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 35 km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.7544° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.0813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km ENE of Santa Maria, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-17 15:41:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-17 16:01:50 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 2.2 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 416 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.539 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us6000pzc5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pzc5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pzc5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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