A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Kalbay in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, 125.4854° East, 5.7051° North, depth 76.39 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000f0c5. Unique identifier: us1000f0c5. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/06/18 / 2018-06-24 15:30:32 / June 24, 2018 @ 3:30 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:30:32 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 76.39 km (47 miles).
Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Polomolok (c. 64 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Maluñgun (c. 52 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Malita (c. 41 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cebuano, Santa Maria, Basiawan (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 2 km SW of Kalbay, Philippines.
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