A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Bitin in Philippines. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:18:52 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20009q1a. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009q1a. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/06/17 / 2017-06-21 01:18:52 / June 21, 2017 @ 1:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 121.2019° East, latitude 14.0903° North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pilar, Norzagaray, Pandi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-six 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km WSW of Bitin, Philippines.
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