Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Libjo in Philippines

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Libjo in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 125.4387 East, latitude 10.1726 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:56:56 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/18 / 2018-05-10 11:56:56 / May 10, 2018 @ 11:56 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e1yr. Unique identifier: us1000e1yr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tanauan, Balogo, Tubay. Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Abuyog (c. 15 600 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Burauen (c. 14 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.4387° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.1726° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km WSW of Libjo, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-05-10 11:56:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-10 12:16:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	10	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.1	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	489	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	3.086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000e1yr	Id of event.
Event Code	1000e1yr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000e1yr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

125.4387° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

10.1726° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

10km WSW of Libjo, Philippines

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

Time

2018-05-10 11:56:56

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-05-10 12:16:10

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

6.1

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

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

489

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

3.086

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

Root Mean Square

1.36 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

mww

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000e1yr

Id of event.

Event Code

1000e1yr

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

Event IDS

,us1000e1yr,

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

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