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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Pondaguitan in Philippines


Earthquake location 4.9701S, 127.5925WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 219 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (136 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 108.32 km (67 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Pondaguitan in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 127.5925° East, latitude 4.9701° North, depth = 108.32 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005h39. Unique identifier: us10005h39. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:03:17 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 10:03:17 / May 13, 2016 @ 10:03 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 219 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.5925° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.9701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 219km SE 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 2016-05-13 10:03:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-13 10:23:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1 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 400 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 2.891 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us10005h39 Id of event.
Event Code 10005h39 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005h39, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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