A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from San Isidro in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 126.536° East, 10.3596° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:01:24 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004x4a. Id of event: us20004x4a. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/02/16 / 2016-02-01 17:01:24 / February 1, 2016 @ 5:01 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dapa (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. 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: 63 km NE of San Isidro, Philippines.
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