A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Exact location, longitude 125.682° East, latitude 5.4279° North, depth = 179.084 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/24 / 2024-06-26 07:18:06 / June 26, 2024 @ 7:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:18:06 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n88a. Unique identifier: us6000n88a. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 179.084 km (111 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was General Santos, Talagutong, Buayan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from General Santos (c. 679 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Alabel (c. 43 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Buayan (c. 14 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixteen 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 24 km E of Sarangani, Philippines.
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