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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag strikes near Basco in Philippines


Earthquake location 20.4267S, 122.1198WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Basco in Philippines. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:44:55 / 12:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.1198 East, latitude 20.4267 North, depth = 148.74 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 148.74 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/04/20 / 2020-04-10 16:44:55 / April 10, 2020 @ 4:44 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70008tc8. Event ids that are associated: us70008tc8.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km E of Basco, Philippines.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.1198° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.4267° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 148.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km E of Basco, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-10 16:44:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-10 17:00:24 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 3.946 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 536 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 2.568 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008tc8 Id of event.
Event Code 70008tc8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008tc8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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