A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:54:56 / 12:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/11/19 / 2019-11-11 16:54:56 / November 11, 2019 @ 4:54 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 121.8316 East, latitude 20.8778 North, depth = 96.07 km. Event id: us60006a91. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006a91. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 96.07 km (60 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km N of Itbayat, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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