A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from General Luna in Philippines on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000db5q. Id of event: us2000db5q. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/02/18 / 2018-02-24 04:00:04 / February 24, 2018 @ 4:00 am. Exact location, longitude 126.897° East, latitude 9.8006° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:00:04 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dapa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 80 km E of General Luna, Philippines.
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