A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Kinablangan in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/17 / 2017-04-12 23:58:41 / April 12, 2017 @ 11:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:58:41 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008j0j. Id of event: us10008j0j. Exact location, longitude 126.8217° East, latitude 7.8334° North, depth = 70.18 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.18 km (44 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Montevista, Libertad, Cabinuangan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Compostela (c. 42 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Manay (c. 20 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Trento (c. 15 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cabinuangan (c. 10 800 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 33 km ENE of Kinablangan, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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