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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 3 km SW of Kiblawan, Philippines


Earthquake location 6.591S, 125.2198WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Kiblawan in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:38:53 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60006rs7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006rs7. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/12/19 / 2019-12-15 12:38:53 / December 15, 2019 @ 12:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 125.2198 East, latitude 6.591 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Malingao (c. 1 122 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Digos (c. 116 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Kidapawan (c. 79 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corocotan, Cabayangan, Buayan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SW of Kiblawan, 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 125.2198° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.591° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SW of Kiblawan, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-15 12:38:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-15 12:58:52 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 6.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us60006rs7 Id of event.
Event Code 60006rs7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006rs7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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