A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.111 East, latitude 21.0081 North, depth = 197.62 km. Global time and date of event 12/08/15 / 2015-08-12 22:21:28 / August 12, 2015 @ 10:21 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us100031rf. Ids that are associated to the event: us100031rf. The temblor was detected at 06:21:28 / 6:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 197.62 km (123 miles).
Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco.
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 seven 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km NE of Itbayat, Philippines.
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