A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Mindanao, Philippines kilometers (0 miles) from Mindanao, Philippines. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 119.68 km (74 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:50:17 / 1:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.0847 East, latitude 5.96 North, depth = 119.68 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/04/17 / 2017-04-10 13:50:17 / April 10, 2017 @ 1:50 pm. Unique identifier: us10008ils. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008ils.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Batobato, Maluñgun, Buayan. Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 16 800 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Buayan (c. 14 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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