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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.0025S, 126.9289WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 92 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (57 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98.21 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 98.21 km, 126.9289° East, 6.0025° North. Id of earthquake: us2000j51w. Event ids that are associated: us2000j51w. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/12/18 / 2018-12-29 03:45:47 / December 29, 2018 @ 3:45 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:45:47 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 92 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.9289° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-29 03:45:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-20 01:08:09 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 432 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 1.709 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us2000j51w Id of event.
Event Code 2000j51w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j51w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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