A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 09:27:31 / 9:27 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/01/19 / 2019-01-18 01:27:31 / January 18, 2019 @ 1:27 am. Exact location of event, longitude 126.6733 East, latitude 6.1435 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us2000jbxn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jbxn. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Union, Sigaboy, Tibanbang. Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from La Union (c. 5 200 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days seventy-three 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 59 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.
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