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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Sabtang in Philippines


Earthquake location 20.1391S, 121.3941WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Sabtang in Philippines on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.45 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us200065ep. Event ids that are associated: us200065ep. Exact location of event, longitude 121.3941 East, latitude 20.1391 North, depth = 18.45 km. Global time and date of event 19/06/16 / 2016-06-19 18:20:50 / June 19, 2016 @ 6:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:20:50 / 2:20 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco.

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

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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: 54 km WSW of Sabtang, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.3941° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.1391° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km WSW of Sabtang, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-19 18:20:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-19 18:41:27 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 449 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 2.681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us200065ep Id of event.
Event Code 200065ep An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065ep, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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