A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 216.13 km (134 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000jdh6. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jdh6. Global time and date of event 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 04:25:10 / February 5, 2019 @ 4:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 125.6708° East, latitude 4.8485° North, depth = 216.13 km. The temblor was reported at 12:25:10 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sarangani (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km SSE of Sarangani, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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