A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.8798 East, latitude 20.8707 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:13:49 / 4:13 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/19 / 2019-07-26 08:13:49 / July 26, 2019 @ 8:13 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us60004vsl. Unique identifier: us60004vsl.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 10 km NNE of Itbayat, Philippines.
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