A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Basco in Philippines on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 08:56:29 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 169.76 km (105 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/05/20 / 2020-05-23 08:56:29 / May 23, 2020 @ 8:56 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 122.4059 East, latitude 19.965 North, depth = 169.76 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000a1uq. Unique identifier: us6000a1uq.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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