A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Looc in Philippines. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:21:13 / 9:21 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70005cvr. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005cvr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.5 km (47 miles). Exact location of event, depth 75.5 km, 120.3069° East, 13.5777° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/09/19 / 2019-09-02 13:21:13 / September 2, 2019 @ 1:21 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calapan, Naic, Talisay. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Batangas (c. 237 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Calapan (c. 66 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Nasugbu (c. 62 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Naic (c. 55 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Patuto (c. 52 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Balayan (c. 50 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Indang (c. 41 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 16 km SSE of Looc, Philippines.
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