A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.27 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60004w9c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004w9c. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/19 / 2019-07-26 23:58:59 / July 26, 2019 @ 11:58 pm. Exact location, longitude 121.9799° East, latitude 20.7661° North, depth = 23.27 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:58:59 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km E of Itbayat, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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