Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Bagalangit in Philippines

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Bagalangit in Philippines on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.9011 East, latitude 13.715 North, depth = 40.36 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008fsc. Unique identifier: us10008fsc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.36 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/04/17 / 2017-04-08 07:08:01 / April 8, 2017 @ 7:08 am. The temblor was detected at 15:08:01 / 3:08 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lambakin, Atimonan, Balanga (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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.

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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 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: 2 km ENE of Bagalangit, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.9011° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.715° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ENE of Bagalangit, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-08 07:08:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-08 07:35:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.21	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	500	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	8.047	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	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	us10008fsc	Id of event.
Event Code	10008fsc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008fsc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

120.9011° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

13.715° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

40.36 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

2km ENE of Bagalangit, Philippines

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-04-08 07:08:01

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-04-08 07:35:49

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

2.7

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

4.21

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

500

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

8.047

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.02 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10008fsc

Id of event.

Event Code

10008fsc

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10008fsc,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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