A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 130.08 km (81 miles). Unique identifier: us10005dnk. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005dnk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/16 / 2016-04-24 09:09:26 / April 24, 2016 @ 9:09 am. Exact location, longitude 125.726° East, latitude 5.0649° North, depth = 130.08 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:09:26 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baliton, Pangyan, Sarangani (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Baliton (c. 5 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Pangyan (c. 5 300 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 one and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 47 km SE of Sarangani, Philippines.
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