A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Cabay in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/17 / 2017-01-21 15:34:19 / January 21, 2017 @ 3:34 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112.19 km (70 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:34:19 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 112.19 km, 125.4342° East, 11.3497° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007umv. Unique identifier: us10007umv.
Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Panalanoy (c. 189 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Catbalogan (c. 68 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Palo (c. 17 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Carigara (c. 17 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Tanauan (c. 16 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Borongan (c. 16 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Balogo, Oras, Capoocan.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 12 km SSW of Cabay, Philippines.
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