A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 121.822° East, 20.7689° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 30/11/15 / 2015-11-30 20:37:22 / November 30, 2015 @ 8:37 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000429y. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000429y. The temblor was detected at 04:37:22 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SW of Itbayat, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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