A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Pondaguitan in Philippines. The epicenter was at a depth of 100.48 km (62 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:06:23 / 4:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 126.3926° East, 5.6853° North, depth 100.48 km. Event id: us1000e2bz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e2bz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/05/18 / 2018-05-10 20:06:23 / May 10, 2018 @ 8:06 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caburan. Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty 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.
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