A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pilar in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pvut. Unique identifier: us6000pvut. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/02/25 / 2025-02-19 12:15:14 / February 19, 2025 @ 12:15 pm. 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. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.0538 East, latitude 9.8875 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:15:14 / 12:15 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tandag, Loreto, Kitcharao. Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km WNW of Pilar, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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