A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ipil in Philippines. The temblor was picked up at 19:56:15 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 124.613 East, latitude 10.952 North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: us20006i2i. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006i2i. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/16 / 2016-07-27 11:56:15 / July 27, 2016 @ 11:56 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mandaue City, Lapu-Lapu City, Tinaan. Earthquake epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Lapu-Lapu City (c. 350 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Mandaue City (c. 331 300 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Ormoc (c. 191 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Danao (c. 70 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Liloan (c. 49 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SW of Ipil, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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