A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Wawa in Philippines on Saturday. Global time and date of event 30/03/19 / 2019-03-30 14:02:58 / March 30, 2019 @ 2:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k7mi. Unique identifier: us2000k7mi. The temblor was detected at 22:02:58 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 182.48 km (113 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.0167 East, latitude 13.7121 North, depth = 182.48 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lubang, Pasig City, Port Area (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bacoor (c. 357 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Calamba (c. 316 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mandaluyong City (c. 305 600 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km SW of Wawa, Philippines.
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