A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Sulangan in Philippines. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 22:29:07 / April 2, 2020 @ 10:29 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:29:07 / 6:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70008m3r. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008m3r. Exact location of event, longitude 126.557 East, latitude 11.1874 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Close country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guiuan. Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Guiuan (c. 11 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 84 km ENE of Sulangan, Philippines.
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