A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. Exact location of event, longitude 126.8272 East, latitude 9.7096 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005e7p. Unique identifier: us70005e7p. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/09/19 / 2019-09-03 23:33:09 / September 3, 2019 @ 11:33 pm. The temblor was detected at 07:33:09 / 7:33 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Socorro, Dapa.
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 73 km E of General Luna, Philippines.
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