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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 5.4226S, 126.5621WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 112 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (70 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70005hsp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005hsp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.06 km (14 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/19 / 2019-09-18 07:01:01 / September 18, 2019 @ 7:01 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.5621 East, latitude 5.4226 North, depth = 23.06 km. The temblor was reported at 15:01:01 / 3:01 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 112 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.5621° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.4226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km 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 2019-09-18 07:01:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-18 07:14:33 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 465 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 1.905 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us70005hsp Id of event.
Event Code 70005hsp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005hsp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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