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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Sabtang in Philippines


Earthquake location 20.0764S, 121.3027WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Sabtang in Philippines on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.3027 East, latitude 20.0764 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/06/18 / 2018-06-18 05:22:36 / June 18, 2018 @ 5:22 am. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:22:36 / 1:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us1000eu6n. Unique identifier: us1000eu6n.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco.

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 sixteen 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 66 km WSW of Sabtang, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.3027° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.0764° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2018-06-18 05:22:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-18 05:41:11 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 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 385 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 2.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000eu6n Id of event.
Event Code 1000eu6n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eu6n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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