A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 10:40:09 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70003g9t. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003g9t. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.4085 East, latitude 9.7255 North, depth = 95.36 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95.36 km (59 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 02:40:09 / April 24, 2019 @ 2:40 am.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kitcharao, Alegria, Aras-asan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kitcharao (c. 7 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 28 km ESE of General Luna, Philippines.
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