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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near General Luna in Philippines


Earthquake location 9.7761S, 126.5781WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Friday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:27:06 / 1:27 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67.44 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70003cam. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003cam. Exact location of earthquake, 126.5781° East, 9.7761° North, depth 67.44 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/19 / 2019-04-26 05:27:06 / April 26, 2019 @ 5:27 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Placer, Bacuag, Aras-asan (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km E of General Luna, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5781° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7761° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km E of General Luna, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-26 05:27:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-26 05:48:37 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 2.2 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 416 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 2.864 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us70003cam Id of event.
Event Code 70003cam An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003cam, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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