A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. Unique identifier: us70003emd. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003emd. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/04/19 / 2019-04-30 15:40:37 / April 30, 2019 @ 3:40 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:40:37 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 126.6345° East, 9.8552° North.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cantilan, Socorro, Dapa. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 52 km E of General Luna, Philippines.
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