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Strong earthquake: M6.4 quake has struck near Sarangani in Philippines


Earthquake location 3.8496S, 126.884WA earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) strikes 233 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines (145 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 00:38:05 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.884° East, 3.8496° North, depth 12.86 km. Global time and date of event 11/01/16 / 2016-01-11 16:38:05 / January 11, 2016 @ 4:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.86 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sarangani in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004dj5. Event ids that are associated: at00o0srjp, pt16011050, us10004dj5.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 233 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.884° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.8496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 233km SE 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 2016-01-11 16:38:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-11 17:00:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 7.49 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 630 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 ,at,pt,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 3.095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 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 mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004dj5 Id of event.
Event Code 10004dj5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o0srjp,pt16011050,us10004dj5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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