A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.81 km (35 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.4282 East, latitude 9.7496 North, depth = 55.81 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:50:07 / 2:50 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000jh3g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jh3g. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/19 / 2019-02-13 06:50:07 / February 13, 2019 @ 6:50 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Surigao, Mainit, Luna. Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km E of General Luna, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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