A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:29:45 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 121.8361° East, 20.7427° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/08/19 / 2019-08-01 06:29:45 / August 1, 2019 @ 6:29 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us600052t5. Unique identifier: us600052t5.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 4 km S of Itbayat, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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