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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.6455S, 126.5314WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 126.5314 East, latitude 5.6455 North, depth = 80.18 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/19 / 2019-09-29 07:40:18 / September 29, 2019 @ 7:40 am. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:40:18 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 80.18 km (50 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005nf1. Unique identifier: us70005nf1.

The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 88 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5314° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.6455° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km SSE 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 2019-09-29 07:40:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-29 07:59:45 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 400 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 1.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us70005nf1 Id of event.
Event Code 70005nf1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005nf1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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