A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Santiago in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.7956 East, latitude 7.2508 North, depth = 62.79 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.79 km (39 miles). Unique identifier: us1000jev2. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jev2. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:27:47 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/03/19 / 2019-03-04 04:27:47 / March 4, 2019 @ 4:27 am.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Mariano (c. 18 700 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Baganga (c. 10 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Batobato (c. 9 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Mariano, Batobato, Manat.
Each 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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