Earthquake: M 4.8 quake strikes near Tobuan in Philippines

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (mg/mb) has striked on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tobuan in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 01:06:42 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 69.76 km (43 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-16 05:06:42 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 120.094 East, latitude 16.0169 North, depth 69.76 km.

Close countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Baguio (c. 272 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Mabalacat City (c. 188 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tarlac City (c. 183 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Urdaneta (c. 101 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Mangaldan (c. 88 800 pop).

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.094° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.0169° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	69.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SSW of Tobuan, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2014-12-16 17:06:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2014-12-16 22:49:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	355	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	6.828	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	usc000t7e2	Id of event.
Event Code	c000t7e2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	usc000t7e2	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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