A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Santa Monica in Philippines. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/17 / 2017-12-25 15:01:36 / December 25, 2017 @ 3:01 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:01:36 / 11:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 126.0267 East, latitude 10.2761 North, depth = 59.57 km. Id of earthquake: us2000chuv. Event ids that are associated: us2000chuv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.57 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guiuan, Bacuag, Claver (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Surigao (c. 87 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Placer (c. 10 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Luna (c. 7 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 28 km N of Santa Monica, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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