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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 137 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines


Earthquake location 4.2072S, 125.7994WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 137 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines (85 miles). Exact location, longitude 125.7994° East, latitude 4.2072° North, depth = 153.64 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sarangani in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000417j. Unique identifier: us1000417j. Global time and date of event 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 11:23:03 / November 25, 2015 @ 11:23 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 153.64 km (95 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:23:03 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 137 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.7994° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.2072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 153.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-25 11:23:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 11:41:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.754 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us1000417j Id of event.
Event Code 1000417j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000417j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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