A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Pedro in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 05/10/17 / 2017-10-05 11:17:28 / October 5, 2017 @ 11:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:17:28 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000b1f7. Unique identifier: us2000b1f7. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 126.4874° East, 7.3643° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gupitan, Davao, Santo Niño (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Davao (c. 1 212 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Tagum (c. 233 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Mati (c. 105 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Panabo (c. 84 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Bislig (c. 67 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Monkayo (c. 51 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Samal (c. 43 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km NW of San Pedro, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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