A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Itbayat in Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100062k4. Unique identifier: us100062k4. Exact location of event, depth 35.28 km, 122.0235° East, 20.9735° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.28 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:47:08 / 12:47 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 16:47:08 / July 4, 2016 @ 4:47 pm.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Basco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (36 miles) from Basco (c. 7 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km NE of Itbayat, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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