A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:24:40 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 07:24:40 / July 28, 2015 @ 7:24 am. Event id: us100032vi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100032vi. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 65.83 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6958 East, latitude 21.1707 North, depth = 65.83 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 45 km NNW of Itbayat, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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