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Earthquake: M 4.5 quake strikes near Burgos in Philippines


Earthquake location 19.491S, 120.2708WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (mg/mb) has striked on Tuesday, 115 kilometers (71 miles) from Burgos in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 03:50:32 / 3:50 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 2014-11-17 07:50:32 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 120.2708 East, latitude 19.491 North, depth 10 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.2708° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.491° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115km NNW of Burgos, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2014-11-17 19:50:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-11-17 20:41:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 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 312 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 3.395 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 usc000sy7u Id of event.
Event Code c000sy7u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usc000sy7u A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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