A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. Global time and date of event 22/10/24 / 2024-10-22 18:14:17 / October 22, 2024 @ 6:14 pm UTC/GMT. 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 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:14:17 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nr6m. Unique identifier: us7000nr6m. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 126.344° East, 5.6923° North.
Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-one 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 76 km SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.
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