Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake strikes near Pandan Niog in Philippines

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (mg/mb) has striked on Wednesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Pandan Niog in Philippines. The temblor was reported at 09:31:43 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 19.15 km (12 miles). Global time of event 25/02/15 / 2015-02-25 01:31:43 / February 25, 2015 @ 1:31 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 119.8379 East, latitude 6.0908 North, depth 19.15 km, unique identifier, usc000tszg.

Close countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Languyan (c. 8 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Languyan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	119.8379° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.0908° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	81km W of Pandan Niog, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-02-25 01:31:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-02-25 01:55:32	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	4.94	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	465	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	1.612	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	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	usc000tszg	Id of event.
Event Code	c000tszg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usc000tszg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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