A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.246 East, latitude 9.6295 North, depth = 46.71 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:02:48 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 46.71 km (29 miles). Global time and date of event 14/03/19 / 2019-03-14 23:02:48 / March 14, 2019 @ 11:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jg21. Unique identifier: us1000jg21.
Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Cabadbaran (c. 31 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabadbaran, Tubay, Surigao (min 5000 pop).
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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 19 km SSE of General Luna, Philippines.
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