A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kiamba in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 124.5788° East, latitude 5.9363° North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/10/17 / 2017-10-01 16:45:23 / October 1, 2017 @ 4:45 pm. Unique identifier: us2000b22v. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000b22v. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:45:23 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Columbio, Buluan, Suyan. Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (43 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Koronadal (c. 125 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Bañga (c. 58 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tacurong (c. 54 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 7 km SW of Kiamba, Philippines.
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