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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Saguing in Philippines


Earthquake location 6.9692S, 125.0872WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Saguing in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us6000646v. Event ids that are associated: us6000646v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.0872 East, latitude 6.9692 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 10:22:35 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/10/19 / 2019-10-29 02:22:35 / October 29, 2019 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Budta (c. 1 273 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Cotabato (c. 179 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was South Upi, Valencia, Kalilangan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 1 km SE of Saguing, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0872° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.9692° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SE of Saguing, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-29 02:22:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-29 02:39:21 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 0.498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 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 us6000646v Id of event.
Event Code 6000646v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000646v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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