A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Burias in Philippines. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008m2k. Unique identifier: us10008m2k. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/17 / 2017-04-29 19:42:05 / April 29, 2017 @ 7:42 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:42:05 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 124.9272° East, 5.3758° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Sebu (c. 21 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Buayan (c. 14 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan, Sebu, Conel (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-two 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 52 km SW of Burias, Philippines.
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