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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Barcelona in Philippines

Posted by admin on June 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.3151S, 126.6513WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Barcelona in Philippines on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/25 / 2025-06-17 08:36:22 / June 17, 2025 @ 8:36 am. Id of earthquake: us6000qks2. Event ids that are associated: us6000qks2. The temblor was reported at 08:36:22 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.15 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 126.6513° East, latitude 8.3151° North, depth = 29.15 km.

Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Bayugan (c. 40 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bah-Bah (c. 28 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Francisco (c. 18 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nabunturan, Bayugan, San Luis.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km NE of Barcelona, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.6513° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.3151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km NE of Barcelona, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-17 08:36:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-17 08:56:43 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 3.4 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 97 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us6000qks2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qks2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qks2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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