A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Uyugan in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/02/19 / 2019-02-03 14:51:39 / February 3, 2019 @ 2:51 pm. Event id: us2000jn89. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jn89. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.39 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:51:39 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.39 km, 122.0871° East, 19.9048° North.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km SSE of Uyugan, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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