A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes Celebes Sea kilometers (0 miles) from Celebes Sea on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 123.7171 East, latitude 5.8866 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred 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). Id of earthquake: us10008n96. Event ids that are associated: us10008n96. The temblor was detected at 16:34:58 / 4:34 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 16:34:58 / April 24, 2017 @ 4:34 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puloypuloy, Maitum, Kalamansig (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Kalamansig (c. 12 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Maitum (c. 8 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bantogon (c. 5 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Puloypuloy (c. 5 100 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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