A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Puro Pinget in Philippines. Unique identifier: us6000phhg. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000phhg. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/12/24 / 2024-12-18 23:04:32 / December 18, 2024 @ 11:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:04:32 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 119.6588° East, latitude 17.6472° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cabugao, Bantay, Vigan. Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Vigan (c. 48 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Bantay (c. 10 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Cabugao (c. 6 900 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 twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
How would you describe the shaking?
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: 74 km W of Puro Pinget, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply