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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 42 km SSW of Maguling, Philippines

Posted by admin on April 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 5.7551S, 124.2328WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Maguling in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/04/25 / 2025-04-15 21:42:46 / April 15, 2025 @ 9:42 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 124.2328° East, latitude 5.7551° North, depth = 30.698 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q6br. Id of event: us6000q6br. 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 30.698 km (19 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:42:46 / 9:42 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 111 km (69 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Isulan (c. 31 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Surallah (c. 31 100 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tamnag, Esperanza, Tantangan (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen 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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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 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: 42 km SSW of Maguling, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.2328° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.7551° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.698 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km SSW of Maguling, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-15 21:42:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-15 22:03:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 483 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.603 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us6000q6br Id of event.
Event Code 6000q6br An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q6br, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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