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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Osias in Philippines

Posted by admin on April 12, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.696S, 124.8452WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Osias in Philippines. The temblor was detected at 04:01:05 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 124.8452° East, 7.696° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us10008h1u. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008h1u. Global time and date of event 12/04/17 / 2017-04-12 20:01:05 / April 12, 2017 @ 8:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cagayan de Oro (c. 445 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Iligan City (c. 312 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mantampay (c. 265 000 pop), 110 km (68 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Astorga, Maigo, Magsaysay (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 11 km NNE of Osias, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.8452° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNE of Osias, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-12 20:01:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-12 20:18:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 451 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 0.957 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us10008h1u Id of event.
Event Code 10008h1u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008h1u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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