A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 125.0784° East, 4.6516° North. The temblor was detected at 21:09:52 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sarangani in Philippines (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20005a5n. Event ids that are associated: us20005a5n. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 13:09:52 / March 16, 2016 @ 1:09 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sarangani (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 93 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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