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


Earthquake location 9.7309S, 125.5224WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Luna in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.32 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/16 / 2016-07-26 14:29:08 / July 26, 2016 @ 2:29 pm. Id of earthquake: us20006hs4. Event ids that are associated: us20006hs4. Exact location of earthquake, 125.5224° East, 9.7309° North, depth 10.32 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:29:08 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Butuan (c. 309 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Libertad (c. 250 400 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Buenavista (c. 18 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Medina, Tungao, Bato (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 2 km E of Luna, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.5224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km E of Luna, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-26 14:29:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-26 14:58:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 417 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 2.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us20006hs4 Id of event.
Event Code 20006hs4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hs4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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