A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 72 kilometers (45 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, 121.153° East, 20.7281° North, depth 16.65 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.65 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10005cmk. Event ids that are associated: us10005cmk. The temblor was picked up at 22:53:50 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 14:53:50 / April 27, 2016 @ 2:53 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Basco. Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 72 km W of Itbayat, Philippines.
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