A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cuenca in Philippines. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 17:22:10 / January 12, 2020 @ 5:22 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:22:10 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007etf. Unique identifier: us60007etf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.0478 East, latitude 13.8823 North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orion, Meycauayan, Atimonan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Dasmariñas (c. 441 900 pop).
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 twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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