A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. Id of earthquake: us10008vls. Event ids that are associated: us10008vls. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/05/17 / 2017-05-26 22:32:57 / May 26, 2017 @ 10:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.03 km (29 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:32:57 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.4631 East, latitude 5.9585 North, depth = 47.03 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Talagutong, La Union, Caburan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Talagutong (c. 8 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Sigaboy (c. 8 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tibanbang (c. 7 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from La Union (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 54 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines.
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