Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Santo Nino in Philippines

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Santo Nino in Philippines on Friday. Unique identifier: us2000iylj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000iylj. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/12/18 / 2018-12-28 11:46:59 / December 28, 2018 @ 11:46 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 120.7066 East, latitude 15.2485 North, depth = 142.72 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 142.72 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 19:46:59 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Halayhay, General Trias, Mangaldan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from San Jose del Monte (c. 357 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 2 km N of Santo Nino, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.7066° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.2485° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	142.72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km N of Santo Nino, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-12-28 11:46:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-28 15:21:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	326	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	7.537	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us2000iylj	Id of event.
Event Code	2000iylj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000iylj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

120.7066° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

15.2485° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

142.72 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

2km N of Santo Nino, Philippines

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2018-12-28 11:46:59

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-12-28 15:21:16

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

480

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

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

326

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

7.537

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.61 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000iylj

Id of event.

Event Code

2000iylj

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000iylj,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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