A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from San Pedro in Philippines. Unique identifier: us60003t42. Ids that are associated to the event: us60003t42. The earthquake was roughly 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). Exact location of event, longitude 124.7947 East, latitude 10.9052 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/19 / 2019-05-19 11:01:07 / May 19, 2019 @ 11:01 am. The temblor was picked up at 19:01:07 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Danao (c. 70 300 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Bogo (c. 23 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cogan (c. 21 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Maasin (c. 18 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Baybay (c. 17 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Daanbantayan, Medellin, Danao. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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