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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 8 km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines

Posted by admin on December 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.963S, 126.1647WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Isidro in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72.68 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 06:11:18 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/12/15 / 2015-12-26 22:11:18 / December 26, 2015 @ 10:11 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us100049re. Unique identifier: us100049re. Exact location of event, depth 72.68 km, 126.1647° East, 9.963° North.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tago, Tandag, Kitcharao (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.1647° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.963° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of San Isidro, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-26 22:11:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-26 22:30:41 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.932 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us100049re Id of event.
Event Code 100049re An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100049re, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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