A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 116 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines (72 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/04/17 / 2017-04-11 14:52:30 / April 11, 2017 @ 2:52 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10008inu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008inu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.9112 East, latitude 5.6034 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:52:30 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. 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: 116 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.
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