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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 10 km E of Columbio, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.7121S, 125.0271WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Columbio in Philippines on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/10/19 / 2019-10-11 01:55:07 / October 11, 2019 @ 1:55 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 125.0271° East, 6.7121° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us70005ta8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005ta8. The temblor was detected at 09:55:07 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop). 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 Carmen, Cotabato, Puloypuloy.

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km E of Columbio, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0271° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7121° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E of Columbio, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-11 01:55:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-11 02:14:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 401 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 0.653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us70005ta8 Id of event.
Event Code 70005ta8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005ta8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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