A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Benito in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.0467 East, latitude 9.9557 North, depth = 66.69 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002vym. Id of event: us20002vym. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 12:01:23 / July 8, 2015 @ 12:01 pm. The temblor was picked up at 20:01:23 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 66.69 km (41 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tandag, Kitcharao, Alegria (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km E of San Benito, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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