A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 03:20:39 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 19:20:39 / July 31, 2019 @ 7:20 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us600052c0. Unique identifier: us600052c0. Exact location, longitude 121.8087° East, latitude 20.8244° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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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. 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: 5 km NW of Itbayat, Philippines.
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